A monkey in every pot.
Do you call yourself an atheist?
I prefer not to use the term. Although I guess I am an atheist. I just don't believe in God. I've always liked Thomas Huxley's term, "agnostic," by which he meant it's an unknowable, insoluble problem from a scientific point of view. By my personality, I'm comfortable with not having the answer to everything. I'm perfectly happy going through my day, thinking, I really wish I knew the answer to that but I don't. I have a very high tolerance for ambiguity. Most people get cognitively dissonant about having uncertainties and need to close that loop and have an answer.
From a Salon interview with Michael Shermer, author of "Why Darwin Matters"
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11:39 PMI call myself an atheist because I believe there is no god. This is different from not believing in god, and requires a leap of faith similar to the one required of someone who does believe in god.
12:20 AM
Way to justify that, Tits.
8:31 AM
this is why i heart Tits.
it takes a lot of thought to examine why there is no god, just as it takes a lot of justification on my part to believe very much in God.
But Darwin is a safe bet, too.
9:09 AM
I think the creationists have scientifically proven that if you put your fingers in your ears and chant, "La la la, I can't hear you!" you can render many decades of scientific study irrelevant.
It also works with sex ed.
1:42 PM
i believe in magic.
and gnomes.
2:55 PM
I believe in miracles.
Where you from?
4:43 PM
You gotta sin to be saved.
6:35 AM
Todd, you're probably the most saved man we've ever known, then.
har. har.
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