While reading Homo Deus, I was intrigued by this question of when will a consensus be drawn among us that we are just an other animal and there is no one called God. a slow transition to this singularity can be observed reviewing our history, but I am curious to know your opinion on when we will reach there and what might be a supplant to God. Off course there will be anomalies in all casses, let's root them out as of now.Let's Discuss more in the comments section.
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Citation? Atheists, using the modern definition, were known in Plato's time. Many so-called atheists today _promote_ facially superstitious beliefs. For example, the anti-GMO movement.[1]
Indeed, I don't think I've personally ever met a single individual (myself included) who didn't systematically exhibit superstitious beliefs.<p>A propensity to superstition might be an unavoidable byproduct of abstract reasoning or of complex social organization. The first question shouldn't be when do we become true atheists, but whether we want to be. The next question might be, how do we devise processes and institutions that independently address our biases and superstitions, either by mitigating or reshaping them.<p>[1] Because lack of evidence is not evidence. Neither is appealing to uncertainty or supposedly unacceptable risks (annihilation of all humanity) without _quantifying_ those risks. In rational discourse there's no avoiding accepting the limits of existing knowledge. But people aren't very good at abstaining from drawing conclusions.
I started my militant atheist phase about 10 years ago, then emerged from it about 4-5 years ago as I started to understand enough about the world/universe to realise that much of the true nature of existence is way beyond our ability to comprehend.<p>That doesn't mean I have any belief in a theistic, interventionist god.<p>It does mean I have an acceptance and appreciation for the transcendent and the unknowable, similar to what Einstein and Darwin described of themselves.<p>I'd recommend exposing yourself to the writings of physicists like Roger Penrose and Freeman Dyson, and recent podcast appearances by physicist Eric Weinstein, to understand how religion and spirituality can (and indeed, must) co-exist with physics.<p>To answer the question in the title of your post: we are so far away from understanding the fundamentals of the nature of reality, that such a question doesn't bear any serious consideration at all.
Extrapolating from history: never<p>Based on the power of HN comments to change humanity: never<p>We have to start by not capitalizing "god" and improving our writing skills to better argue with the believers.