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> There's proof of electrons There's also proof of God: to borrow Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph, si monumentum requiris, circumspice. I don't mind a little a

by wtbob 10y ago

> There's proof of electrons There's also proof of God: to borrow Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph, si monumentum requiris, circumspice. I don't mind a little atheist boy proclaiming his disbelief in preschool, but I wonder how his father would feel about a little religious boy proclaiming his belief in that same school.

erelde 10y ago
> If you seek his monument, look around you This, is no proof. At best it's an argument from authority. You need a little leg up in rhetoric arguments. It has long been decided, by better logicians and theologists than us, that either there's no proof of a supreme being or that it doesn't exist. To borrow vocabulary from another domain, it's a closed issue. Either way is fine, and I've been careful not to disclose my beliefs. edit: I used an argument from authority, partly by sarcasm pedit: musing about languages and brains: I did 3 years of latin classes and was good at it, and although I could roughly understand the latin quote, translating it in English through my native tongue made my brain feel weird, so I took the translation found on wikipedia...