RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 20, 2015 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2015 at 2:41 pm by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(December 20, 2015 at 6:44 am)robvalue Wrote: Just a quick reminder:
Default (weak) atheism cannot be wrong, as it makes no claims of either belief or of knowledge. It is simply the state of mind of not yet being convinced that God either does or does not exist. It is being undecided. So to state "Atheists are wrong" is to strawman every atheist as a strong/gnostic atheist, who is making additional claims.
If you need to misrepresent your audience, then your argument is bogus.
I'm a 6 on the Dawkins scale of 7. There is most probably no god, and it's most unlikely that any theist will ever come up with an intellectually honest case for his god which is supported by any empirical evidence, but because all god claims are unfalsifiable, anyone's claim of a personal relationship with a god which isn't delusional has the same probability as any tale of riding pink unicorns, or scoring with a hundred DD mermaids.
Also, I don't see my anti-theism being in conflict with non-absolute atheism, so long as that applies only to evangelism and child indoctrination. There could be a god which is as powerful as they claim, but if so it would not need any such shenanigans in order to make itself known.
After several years of hanging out on atheist blogs and this forum, I still haven't run into anyone who would say there is absolutely no god, but then most posting atheists are too educated to say that. In real life I met some who would hold that position out of spiteful ignorance, and they would not be reasoning their position here because they wouldn't know how. I don't waste my time discussing ideas with them for the same reasons I won't waste my time on Delicate.
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