Hey Nymph,
I hate to say it but Chad's got a point in this one. Kitan's made a positive claim: the certainty that god/s don't exist. Positive claims need to be justified. He's made one evidencial and one emotional statement regarding this:
1. There's no evidence to demonstrate the existence of god/s
2. He finds it demeaning to human intelligence that people can believe in god/s
Of course, Chad's responses would be:
1. An absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence
2. Your offended? So what?
...and if I was playing contrarian, I'd say the same.
I hate to say it but Chad's got a point in this one. Kitan's made a positive claim: the certainty that god/s don't exist. Positive claims need to be justified. He's made one evidencial and one emotional statement regarding this:
1. There's no evidence to demonstrate the existence of god/s
2. He finds it demeaning to human intelligence that people can believe in god/s
Of course, Chad's responses would be:
1. An absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence
2. Your offended? So what?
...and if I was playing contrarian, I'd say the same.
Sum ergo sum