RE: What is your favoured argument FOR atheism
February 26, 2011 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2011 at 3:11 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(February 25, 2011 at 6:14 pm)apophenia Wrote: Atheism needs no reason because it is not a belief
That is not necessarily true. Atheism can be a belief that God is impossible (gnostic atheism) or a belief that God is merely more improbable than probable.
Atheism without a belief is like someone who has never heard of the notion of God. Like a newborn baby.
It is true that atheism doesn't need a reason to disbelieve, but it does need a reason to consider God improbable. I consider God to be highly improbable based on his complexity and also the fact that a thing such as God is just so far from our experience that it is rational of us to infer him as improbable.
