(December 28, 2015 at 7:33 pm)Delicate Wrote:(December 28, 2015 at 6:41 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: If you can't prove theism, then you didn't disprove atheism, so to speak. Atheism means not believing in Gods. You can only "dispel" atheism by convincing all atheists that God exists. If you can't convince me that God exists, then you didn't do a damn thing to atheism, even if I were the only atheist in the world.Not necessarily, because I see two distinct projects: refuting objections to theism and making arguments for theism.
One is a negative project another is positive.
And frankly, the positive case requires far more background work, especially given that many people here aren't even capable of rational responses, and I mean that as a matter of fact, not an insult.
There are places where the caliber of atheist thought is more sophisticated. There the positive case is more cost-effective to make.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're simply a product of bad, outdated philosophy. I know you're sincere, but you're simply wrong as a matter of fact. And you don't get to redefine terms to suit your case whenever you want it too. You can't provide any evidence or sound reasoning for your god's existence, and that's that. There's literally nothing more to it.
