When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?

[Delicate]

At the end of the day Delicate, you can debate as much as you like but...

There absolutely is no God

"HAI GAIZ IM AN UGNOSTICK ERTHERIST."

[Delicate]

I understand perfectly well what the words mean.

What I reject is tactical redefinitions. Redefinitions designed for rhetorical, debating advantage, that are out of step with the rest of our established body of knowledge.

If you want to have a meaningful discussion, it would do you well to understand my point here. You can do all you want to justify your redefinitions, but as long as it is motivated by rhetorical reasons as opposed to substantive, analytic reasons, I can't take it seriously.

What don't you understand about this?

There is no god.  There is no heaven.  There is no hell.  The Wholly Babble is one of the worst compilations of offensive bronze-age mythology to ever have been created.  
You can do all you want to justify your religious stance, but there is no empirical evidence to support any of them, and you have failed, in every post, to provide any.
The only thing that you have convinced us of is that you are very good at insulting and disrespecting anyone who doesn't agree with your religious viewpoints.

How long did it take you to memorize that bit of atheist teaching, dear?

[Edwardo Piet]

Yeah, I'm an agnostic atheist.

[drfuzzy]

There is no god.  There is no heaven.  There is no hell.  The Wholly Babble is one of the worst compilations of offensive bronze-age mythology to ever have been created.  
You can do all you want to justify your religious stance, but there is no empirical evidence to support any of them, and you have failed, in every post, to provide any.
The only thing that you have convinced us of is that you are very good at insulting and disrespecting anyone who doesn't agree with your religious viewpoints.

How long did it take you to memorize that bit of atheist teaching, dear?

50 years . . . DEAR.   Another snide remark.  Is that all that you're capable of, insults?

[Edwardo Piet]

Absolutely. I'm an agnostic atheist and there absolutely is no God.

Contradiction?

Well... no because of course I admit that there's the teeniest tiniest possibility that God might exist... but for all practical purposes he simply doesn't exist and here's the real question: Would it be unreasonable for me to say: "There absolutely is no Santa Claus."?

[The Valkyrie]

One of the standard mantras atheists are taught to say is "I'm an atheist because I have seen no evidence for God."

This is not a convincing reason to be an atheist. Why?

It's possible for someone to be too blind or too ignorant to see or understand the evidence. Just like a toddler might say "I see no evidence of the validity of Quantum Mechanics" or a blind woman might say "I see no evidence of the existence of colors" the problem might be with the person and not the evidence. 

Clearly, if the atheist wants the public to believe that there is no evidence, they have to be able to respond meaningfully to purported examples of theistic evidence. 

Atheists here, for the most part are not competent enough to do this. 

And hence, when someone says they are an atheist because they have seen no evidence, the best response seems to be to send them to an optometrist.

Utter shite.

Christians themselves state that you don't need evidence, only faith.

Atheists, and many within the religious community as well, aren't happy to accept that rather irrational claim.

But, of course, when religious folk say they can provide evidence, it invariably comes down to quotes from their holy books, claims from personal incredulity (I can't see how evolution works, therefore, god!), personal experiences (which are only evidence to those who had the "experience" and those willing to believe them), and idiotic statements like "look at the trees".

You say there's evidence? As long as it doesn't fall into the above criteria, SHOW IT!

By the way, moving a pawn as the first step of the game doesn't count as check mate.

[drfuzzy]

At the end of the day Delicate, you can debate as much as you like but...

There absolutely is no God

"HAI GAIZ IM AN UGNOSTICK ERTHERIST."

More infantile insults.

[Delicate]

How long did it take you to memorize that bit of atheist teaching, dear?

50 years . . . DEAR.   Another snide remark.  Is that all that you're capable of, insults?

You're just repeating a mindless mantra. How do I communicate with someone like that?

[Cato]

You're just repeating a mindless mantra. How do I communicate with someone like that?

Provide evidence.

[Delicate]

You're just repeating a mindless mantra. How do I communicate with someone like that?

Provide evidence.

Sure he won't just repeat his mantra louder to drown out the evidence?