(February 16, 2013 at 8:05 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(February 16, 2013 at 8:00 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: That's why its absurd to say its a default position. If that's the case then rocks are atheists since no thinking is required. It you as an atheist who should be insulted by saying its a default non-thinking proposition.
Saying disbelief is the default position is not the same thing as saying it is the same thing as holding the same position as babies hold.
Quote:Explain that to your fellow atheists who claim it is an inborn condition
The default position on ANY extraordinary claim is disbelief until the claim is supported by demonstrable evidence, reasoned argument and valid logic.
Says who? But lets keep the focus on the claim we're talking about. The belief theism is an opinion to the question why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? Was our existence the result of plan and design or the result of happenstance? Given the extraordinary phenonmena we are attempting to account for what belief in that regard would be 'ordinary'? I can't think of any explanation for our existence and that isn't extraordinary and if they're all extraordinary then they are all ordinary.
