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Atheism allows you to take it further. Atheism says that since the world is governed by physical laws alone, anything not forbidden by the laws of physics is a
by frisco 18y ago
Atheism allows you to take it further. Atheism says that since the world is governed by physical laws alone, anything not forbidden by the laws of physics is achievable. You don't have to concede that one day you'll join her in a hole in the ground: we become masters of our fate and, with enough creativity and engineering, throw off the pessimism imposed by religion.
- rsheridan6 18y agoNot really. It may be possible in theory to cure all diseases, but whether we can do so in time for YOU is doubtful (the older you are, the more doubtful it is). If we can, you'll die of an accident sooner or later. If you upload your mind into a computer with backups, you can avoid accidents but it's questionable whether it's really "you" who would survive. And even if everything goes perfectly and you consider the upload to equal "you," you'll still die in the heat death of the universe.