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Just for the record, there are many very logical people in the world who believe that there is something more to life. For instance, Francis Collins, NIH director, director of the human genome project, current Christian and former atheist.[/quote]
Well, it depends on what you mean by “more to life,” but if you mean that they believe in something that they have no logical reason to believe in, then those people are, by definition, not logical (regarding their belief that there is “more to life”).[/quote]
Logic only works when you have information to manipulate. To analogize – if the world were an enormous room and there was a door that you could use to leave but could never return, logic is useless to determine what’s on the other side of the door. I realize that you can say it’s just another enormous room containing the people who left, but you have no data – it could be a swimming pool full of Skittles.[/quote]
We do have information to analyze. We have a certain amount of understanding of the laws of physics, and we have some observations of our universe. To analogize – to take our knowledge of the universe and conclude that the christian (or any particular) god exists is like seeing a swimming pool full of skittles and concluding that it’s the people who left.
