On 1/19/2014 3:08 PM, andrel wrote:
> Then I found a way to found an ethics based on the assumption that god
> does not exist. And I have lived by that ever since and it has become a
> part of who I really am. If a god turns up my entire belief system will
> be in disarray. (luckily that won't happen)
>
Actually, my take would be much the same, I think, as that of PZ Myers. 
If a god did show up, and did things that seemed to defy natural laws, 
there would be a few moments of disconcert, then I would start thinking, 
"How exactly did they do that?" The default position would not be to 
presume that there was no explanation, or that the best explanation was 
that it was really god, but, rather, that they are doing something that 
is *possible* to achieve, and I just don't know exactly how yet.

This is, of course, the dead opposite of religious belief, where one 
"expects" to have some things only be possible if the god is the one 
doing it, and how they did it to be unexplainable, and unreproducible.

-- 
Commander Vimes: "You take a bunch of people who don't seem any 
different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get 
this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."

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