tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6066855203708758126.post1556694238687313387..comments2023-11-05T15:46:33.504+05:30Comments on Thoughts on Knowledge Management, Business, Life in General, Society, Spirituality ...: Rationalism ... Contd.Atulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812597116870146092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6066855203708758126.post-15309401625387309502007-12-24T16:14:00.000+05:302007-12-24T16:14:00.000+05:30December seems to be a hectic month for you.. ther...December seems to be a hectic month for you.. there has been no new post after the tea pot... waiting to read the next line of thought.. may be X-mas food in Kolkata??? :)debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18096880140488392122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6066855203708758126.post-36194715523655037932007-11-16T22:43:00.000+05:302007-11-16T22:43:00.000+05:30Dear Mr. Nanawaty,While I agree with your reasonin...Dear Mr. Nanawaty,<br><br>While I agree with your reasoning, all I would say here is that unless the presence of otherwise of God is proved, lets not make statements on this one way or the other. And, the first step would be to not be judgemental about this. Neither is this consistent with the scientific spirit, nor is it anything much more than irrational atheism.<br><br>Adding to this, the disproof of the negative is also a part of the scientific method, like we prove the irrationality of the square root of 2. Which means that this is not just a simple, straightforward debate, but has many more twists and turns than we imagine.Atulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812597116870146092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6066855203708758126.post-2221188512717174202007-11-11T11:43:00.000+05:302007-11-11T11:43:00.000+05:30Dear Atul,I agree with you on the point of keeping...Dear Atul,<br><br>I agree with you on the point of keeping open mind and think rationally. But this should apply not only to rationalists or one may say followers of reason, but also to {hard core} atheists too. As a scientist if one comes across the evidence/prrof against the hypothesis, he/she will accept the proof and never insists that he/she was right and all were wrong. But this never happens with irrationalists. <br>Just because sceince cannot disprove the existence of God one must not accept (blindly) the exstence of God. Tommorrow one may say that there is a boiling tea pot very near the Sun. Obviously no scientist will be able to prove decisively absence of it. This does not mean we go on believing that there is a tea pot near the Sun (whose surface temp is millions and millions of degrees}. It is the responsibility of the claimer of tea pot to come up with proof which should be beyond doubt and satisfy logical reasoning. The hypothesis of God lacks all these steps.<br>As such let us keep this hypothesis in hybernation till some hard evidence comes up. Till such time we will stop all that nonsense which is attributed to God. <br>Regards,<br>Prabhakar NanawatyNanawatyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02861698984644637321noreply@blogger.com