(August 14, 2014 at 9:50 am)CristW Wrote: My reasoning does not lead to the FINAL conclusion that there is a creator. A believing "theist" does not create an argument for the DOUBT of a creator. Only an agnostic or an atheist creates the doubt for a creator.
A person does not have to believe there is a creator to be a theist. A theist, by definition, believes in one or more gods. That's it. Just as with the term 'atheist', you are not entitled to draw any other inferences about that person's beliefs or lack thereof.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'