(December 15, 2015 at 9:24 pm)Stimbo Wrote: How long should I wait for these links? I'm new around here.
About three posts after you asked.... someone did say that the exact words "no evidence". They clarified this a few posts later (perhaps because he read our discussion) and changed it to no credible evidence. You later changed your tune from insufficient evidence to imply there was not "the slightest atom of credible evidence to be found."
What is the difference between no evidence and no credible evidence? In the link to the Stanford encyclopedia which someone referenced, it defines evidence as that which justifies belief. Do you think that non-credible evidence is justification for belief?
I do think that it is understandable that if it is commonly said that there is "no evidence" that one may understand it to mean exactly that. And it may be somewhat rash to claim a straw man.
However; I stand corrected and now understand that you (and do you speak for all or most atheists in your strawman claim?) do think there is that which justifies belief in God (even if insufficient for committed belief).
