From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 9:38 AM To: alt.atheism.moderated Subject: Re: The psychology of Atheism Jim Humphries wrote > if someone asks the question "How > did the highest level laws come into being?", I can provide > a theistic explanation where you as an atheist can only shrug > your shoulders and say " they just were". Inference to best > explanation dictates that theism prevails here. If someone asks the questions "How did El/Yahweh come into being?", I can provide a supertheistic explanation -- El/Yahweh was created by SuperGod -- where you as a theist can only shrug your shoulders and say "He just was". Inference to best explanation dictates that supertheism prevails here. Of course, it also "dictates" that SuperDuperTheism "prevails here". It also "dictates" that SuperDuperUberTheism "prevails here". Such "dictation" is absurd. On the contrary, parsimony suggests that naturalism prevails here. -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net