Hey, some good news!
Hey, some good news!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250096/You-wouldnt-believe-atheism-worlds-biggest-faith-Christianity-Islam.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250096/You-wouldnt-believe-atheism-worlds-biggest-faith-Christianity-Islam.html
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There is an infinity of things in which we all do not believe. That does not make all of us "believers in an infinity of non-things". Same with atheists. We simply reject one more thing than most people do. But anyone with a bit of mathematical saaavy knows that infinity + 1 is just still the same value of infinity.
And no. Consensus plays no role in truth. We cannot form a commttee to decide whether 2 + 2 = 5. Or rather, we could, but it's deliberations would be meaningless.
And Eli Fennell, I'm afraid you've got the problem induction exactly right. I can no more disprove the existence of god than I can the existence of the easter bunny. But if you have good inductive reasons to believe in some kind of god -- or the easter bunny -- then it is rational (e.g., from a Bayesian perspective) to believe in said god or bunny. But it's an inductive inference and so never guaranteed to be right.