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Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
Jireh Offline
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Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true

that means : present a case which explains why you think the best explanation for our existence requires only naturalism .

No bible bashing etc...... which would be a negative argument.
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RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm
We don't need to present any evidence as we are not making any claims.
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RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:16 pm
(April 21, 2012 at 5:13 pm)Jireh Wrote: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true

that means : present a case which explains why you think the best explanation for our existence requires only naturalism .

No bible bashing etc...... which would be a negative argument.

Am I reading this right? Your first post is a request to be put on ignore for trolling? OK, I'll comply.
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RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:18 pm
(April 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm)Darwinian Wrote: We don't need to present any evidence as we are not making any claims.

So what are you here for, then ?

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RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:18 pm
(April 21, 2012 at 5:13 pm)Jireh Wrote: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true

Wrong question.
So I'll fix it for ya.

Quote:Please tell me why you don't believe in god.

I don't believe in god due to a lack of evidence to support the existence of such a being.
An atheist is one who is without belief in god. That's it. Got nothing to do with anything else.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:18 pm
(April 21, 2012 at 5:18 pm)Jireh Wrote:
(April 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm)Darwinian Wrote: We don't need to present any evidence as we are not making any claims.

So what are you here for, then ?

We enjoy the company of like minded people. Why, what do you do?
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RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:20 pm
No one has ever presented a convincing reason to believe that gods of any kind exist. All belief in gods seems to come down to the desire to believe that they do.

You are the one claiming there is a god. Why should I believe such an unlikely claim?
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RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:21 pm (This post was last modified: April 21, 2012 at 5:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Let's try something along the lines of naturalism being the best explanation offered thusfar, with the most evidence in support of it, and the most demonstrable effects from leveraging it's principles. Going even so far as to be able to investigate the claimed explanations, evidence, and effects of other systems and assigning them to the category of "mis-attribution" or, in at least as many cases, downright untrue.

That doesn't work for you? Strange, because I'm pretty sure it does work for you, all day, every day, even right now as you read this. Or did you think that the interwebs ran on magic? "Naturalism" (whatever the hell that means to you anyway) is the best explanation for existence even in the event of a god or spirit (whatever the hell that means to you), which would just be some other thing loaded on top of or under the explanation we currently have. In other words, if your god did it, the means by which we can demonstrate it were how it was done. Not magic words and a puff of smoke.
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RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:33 pm
*YAWN* Dead Horse
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RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 21, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Not ONE convincing and well founded answer so far...... no surprise here....
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