Timeline for Do Buddhism and Atheism contradict each other?
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| Jul 14, 2015 at 17:54 | comment | added | Sankha Kulathantille | Yes, the gods in Buddhism are bound by the same laws of nature: impermanence, suffering and being uncontrollable | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 15:50 | comment | added | Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski | I would say that to the degree that we can speculate about possible extraterrestrial life the consensus is that any such life forms would be bound by the same laws of nature that applies to me and to you. Humans sent spacecraft to several other worlds (today's news: to Pluto too!), and the laws of physics turned out to be the same on each of them. | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 14:26 | comment | added | Sankha Kulathantille | So by that definition, atheists should reject the existence of aliens too. :) Higher in the sense like humans have a higher standard of living compared to animals. | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 14:22 | comment | added | Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski | I would say that to a vast majority of atheists taxonomy of all types and categories of supernatural beings that are posited by various religions is a moot task. Atheists often subscribe to some form of naturalism and disbelieve in anything more than the natural world that is accessible to our senses and to the natural science. (If you would excuse a bad pun, I saw in a zoo that giraffes exist and they are in fact higher than humans.) | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 12:25 | comment | added | Sankha Kulathantille | But I don't think it rejects the existence of beings higher than humans who are not immortal. | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 11:58 | comment | added | Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski | Atheism is a position that rejects existence of all kinds of gods and deities, not only the existence of an almighty God of the middle-east monotheistic religions. | |
| Jul 13, 2015 at 5:24 | history | edited | Sankha Kulathantille | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2015 at 5:01 | history | answered | Sankha Kulathantille | CC BY-SA 3.0 |