(May 8, 2009 at 1:13 pm)g-mark Wrote: Almost.It would be very unscientific and irrational to presume absolute knowledge about things that cannot be proven (indeed it is a contradiction). I hold that beings such as gods are unprovable because the attributes that define them are unprovable and even undemonstratable (we're talking about omniscience, omnipresence, etc). Thus unprovable beings can never have a truth value assigned to them.
I'd disagree with EvF on the "certainty" issue. To be certain of something is completely different from claiming absolute knowledge. I am certain the sun will come up tomorrow, but it won't if the sun is destroyed tonight whilst I sleep. Certainty is a measure of how likely you believe the event to be, and I think the existence of gods are completely 100% unlikely, and I am therefore 100% certain about their non-existence. I'm not going to claim they don't exist however, because I simply do not know.
