Malcolm McMahon wrote in message <37954855.10867296 at news.demon.co.uk>...
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>I can see how this sounds like an irrelvant jump but it's connected to
>the above speculation. I'm wondering if atheism actually fills that
>"biological" drive towards religious belief, albeit it replaces God with
>Occam's Razor. It seems like the same kind of certainty in areas where I
>believe no rational certainty can exist.
supposition that 'Occam's Razor', or anything else that can be traced back
to neural information-processing dynamics, is 'mutually-exclusive' with the
Existence of God, is fallacious.
it's like saying that sawing a log with a bowsaw is 'mutually-exclusive'
with the existence of oxygen... doesn't compute.
K. P. Collins