>I had a thought a while back that atheism and religiousness were pretty much
>the same, since they each rest on ultimate causes (the existence or
>nonexistence of God) which are equally unprovable.
I think these are different categories. Belief in a diety unsupported by
evidence is rather like belief in mermaids--unnecessary to explain
phenomena and unexplained by them. Atheism is simply an application of
Occam's razor.
Mark
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