1. Atheists are just as dogmatic as theists, and the only reasonable person is an agnostic.

Comment #122093 by AlwaysLearning on February 4, 2008 at 4:53 pm

It's not that agnostics can't 'make up their mind', it's that they understand that 'things change'...and 'beliefs change'...just as many atheists changed in their understanding/belief that god does not exist.

It boils down to a present vs. future perspective.

Can an atheist KNOW for CERTAIN....100%...that some 'being' will not arrive on Earth, claiming they designed us out of manufactured DNA?

No, they simply can't. They can only believe that it won't happen.

And, as it has been said here many times, 'belief' in something, does not make it 'truth'.

It's also been said, the only thing we know for sure....is that we are 'aware'.

I would have to add to that...that we are 'always learning'.

We simply do not know what our future holds...we can only speculate.

Granted, even if a being did arrive and claimed such, and 'proved' they HAD designed us from DNA....would they be gods? Or just some veeerry old scientists?

Would we believe in their 'proof'? Would it not depend on their 'sources of facts' against our sources of facts?

That's the paradox...technically, the term 'fact' is just as much a 'concept' as is 'god'.

The 'truth' for you is based on your own conclusion....at THAT specific point in time.

'Truth' as we know it, can only exist in a singularity of time.

Things change.