I think believers are blind to evidence that faces them their every waking moment.
Or they just deny it.
Or maybe sweeping generalizations is something we should all put behind us.
Perhaps, and then perhaps not. This is not a simple argument like asking if a glass is half full or half empty (its not a matter of perception).
Some generalizations are valid.
There are rules that govern all physical phenomenon, although physics is beginning to question whether these rules apply in all states.
I guess its a matter of whether or not you believe that there is someone formulating the rules.
"I think therefore I am", "Let there be light", the big bang?
All related in my cosmos.
So at the heart of my beliefs, a sweeping generalization that everything is connected. A vast ballet of mathematics, physics, and rules that coexist to produce a result.
We are small creatures limited in our intellect facing a vast construct that we will one day disappear from.
As men, unique amongst all creatures we have learned to question this and to learn and grow past our place in the natural order.
But whether or not you agree with me, man is still only a a meat machine with a grand but still limited neural net processor.
He's not God, and no matter how great our achievements, he never will be.
So you can have your humanist views affirming agnostic or atheistic sentiments and I can have mine.
In the long run it doesn't matter because we will never get an answer to this question.
And one day, we will be gone.
I can live with that.
