[Discuss] Re: "Atheism"

[Timothy Collett]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:

>> Why can't you believe that the world created itself, and the Gods
>> came into being to guard it?
>
> Because "the world created itself" doesn't make sense. To create
> something, you have to exist. Before you're created, you don't exist.
> So it's impossible for anything to create itself.

It doesn't make sense to you because of the mythoses (?) you grew up  
steeped in.  That doesn't mean that there couldn't be a culture to  
which it would make sense.

Or if you don't like that, how about, "Before the world, there was  
chaos, and the chaos spit out a stone, and the stone became the world"?

Like I said, it's perfectly possible to have a creation myth without  
a creator.  You just need to be a little creative. ;-)

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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"It may be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of  
this kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve"
     ~Edgar Allen Poe