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Comment author: sketerpot 13 August 2010 05:43:13AM *  4 points [-]

I would not call myself an atheist, but a sub-proselytized human with autodidactic qualities. I do not deny religion off hand, because of the correlation with the development of science, but, one of my main arguments is that humans are born without religion and science may be instinctual. (Again, haven’t read everything), I think that the idea of "God" is just taking abductive reasoning to an extreme.

I read this paragraph twice, and I know all the words, but I still have no idea what you're saying here. Could you elaborate on any of this, or give links to a web site that does?

Comment author: adsenanim 13 August 2010 06:12:38AM 0 points [-]

I'm sorry, I cannot give one link that would explain this well.

I think the key may be with the idea of abductive reasoning, that the mind can relate multiple sensory observations and come up with a correlation (a derivative if you will) of the experiential world.

I'm being short...