Me being an atheist is really only a preemptive estimate to my belief in "God".
Any particular person may mean basically anything by the term "God". So I can't tell if I'm an atheist with regard to whatever that specific idea may be or not until I've heard it. Chances are, I will be, but not necessarily. These are the three scenarios I have encountered, in order of frequency:
1) The definition I'm given is incoherent. I have no idea what the person is talking about. Neither, I suspect, do they.
2) The definition instantly puts "God" outside the scope of science, making it untestable and unfalsifiable. No one can know anything about this "God", including the person talking to me, although of course they will usually claim to anyway. Like all the other infinity of unfalsifiable things that "could" exist, I have no reason to think that it actually does exist until I have evidence. And the possibility of evidence has been excluded by definition.
3) Something that blatantly already exists is being labelled "God" like nature, or the universe. I believe in this "God" although I see no particular point in labelling it as such.
If anyone ever manages to define God in a way that is testable and falsifiable, in the whole of my lifetime, and this becomes anything like the accepted definition, I will be stunned out of my stupid pants.
Any particular person may mean basically anything by the term "God". So I can't tell if I'm an atheist with regard to whatever that specific idea may be or not until I've heard it. Chances are, I will be, but not necessarily. These are the three scenarios I have encountered, in order of frequency:
1) The definition I'm given is incoherent. I have no idea what the person is talking about. Neither, I suspect, do they.
2) The definition instantly puts "God" outside the scope of science, making it untestable and unfalsifiable. No one can know anything about this "God", including the person talking to me, although of course they will usually claim to anyway. Like all the other infinity of unfalsifiable things that "could" exist, I have no reason to think that it actually does exist until I have evidence. And the possibility of evidence has been excluded by definition.
3) Something that blatantly already exists is being labelled "God" like nature, or the universe. I believe in this "God" although I see no particular point in labelling it as such.
If anyone ever manages to define God in a way that is testable and falsifiable, in the whole of my lifetime, and this becomes anything like the accepted definition, I will be stunned out of my stupid pants.
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