From what I've read on this forum and others the atheists seem to think that religion is just man-made and henceforth not trustworthy since man is fallible.
Reasoning can be fallacious, what I'm talking about is evidence that does not rely on reasoning. Besides, it could be that there is in fact no such thing as causality and what we perceive to be it might just be a coincidence that cause always precedes the effect.
Look, I've said this before and now I'll repeat myself, that is the wave-particle duality. It's not that objects don't exist until we observe them, but rather objects have both wave and particle-like properties. I know this goes against our everyday logic, but it could be that quantum entities...
If that were the case, then the Buddha's teachings would come naturally to most people, yet most people still cling onto things they think will bring them happiness while trying to avoid those which they think will bring them pain. This is the opposite of what Buddha taught. The Buddha taught...
While there might be some merit to that statement, basically Buddhism disputes it. The Four Noble Truths state that suffering is a result of ignorance, so it would only be prudent to obviate it (ignorance).
Really? I thought that in Buddhism enlightenment is a personal experience. Sure, in Mahayana Buddhism others can help you in achieving it, but you still have to experience it for yourself. What's the use of this Transmission of the Light, then?
If that's the case, then forgive me if I'm suspicious about its validity in making claims about reality. How can we know that this 'direct realization' method as any merit whatsoever? What if we realize something that is wrong? At least in science we can test our theories.
How about the fact that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero? Look, wasn't it you who said that nothing is masquerading as something? Well, I happen to agree with that, meaning that everything we think we see around us is really just an illusion.
Like I said that is just an interpretation of quantum mechanics, it doesn't necessarily depict what is actually going on. What you're touching on here is the wave-particle duality, it may be weird, but like I said it could just be that our logic is faulty.
Quantum mechanics does not invalidate materialism. Just because particles dissolve into probability waves when not observed does not at all disprove materialism, since that is just an interpretation not a description of what actually happens. Quantum mechanics in no way says that the mind exists...