> Atheism too speaks of something that can't be measured: the certain non-existence of the thing every human culture has sensed, longed for, believed in some form or another since the beginning of humanity.
Not at all. It simply states that our desire for something isn't sufficient evidence for its existence.
For example: I really want ice cream. Therefore I have ice cream. If you assert that I do not have ice cream you're clearly wrong because I really want ice cream.
> The theories include those of super-intelligent life beyond our measure, which really isn't that far intellectually from the idea of God.
Morally and ontologically it is. Or we can just call the tallest building in the city God.
> these men's insights into and pioneering in their scientific fields were driven by philosophical commitments to the divine origin of the universe
They were. And Soviet scientists were driven by a commitment to the revolution.
The constant in religion and philosophy and science and commerce and art is human beings and their psychology.
Not at all. It simply states that our desire for something isn't sufficient evidence for its existence.
For example: I really want ice cream. Therefore I have ice cream. If you assert that I do not have ice cream you're clearly wrong because I really want ice cream.
> The theories include those of super-intelligent life beyond our measure, which really isn't that far intellectually from the idea of God.
Morally and ontologically it is. Or we can just call the tallest building in the city God.
> these men's insights into and pioneering in their scientific fields were driven by philosophical commitments to the divine origin of the universe
They were. And Soviet scientists were driven by a commitment to the revolution.
The constant in religion and philosophy and science and commerce and art is human beings and their psychology.