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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] That having been done, I'm going to have to disagree with this atheism = religion business. The religious point of view is, roughly, this: see this space where you can't see anything? Well, there's something there, which we have learned about through any number of indirect/nonempirical means (which boil down to tradition and revelation, essentially). Whereas the atheist counterpoint is: I'm going to go ahead and assume this empty space actually is empty. There is, if you want to really get down to basics, a leap of faith involved here from both angles. But they are qualitatively different leaps, namely: faith that your observations fundamentally map to some exterior reality (that we aren't just brains in a jar, as the old saw goes) versus faith that despite being unobserved an entity or realm exists. But, despite assertions by the Pope, atheism v. theism has nothing to do, at least intrinsically, with creation v. evolution. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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