(March 18, 2016 at 4:10 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: As a believer I still like to follow the musings of the "opposition". Occasionally I find positions with which I agree. Even before reading this article, I adopted a signature mocking the idea that atheism is simply a lack of belief. I have posted this link as an invitation to discuss the points raised by the author who just so happens to be an atheist:
https://philosophersgroan.wordpress.com/...we-can-do/
That it is impossible to disprove the existence of a god really just evidence that theists have moved the argument out of the realm of reality. The realms of the imaginary have no limits and the goalposts can always be moved. For the believer, god will always be safe from scrutiny. For the skeptic, the only reason this is a subject worth discussing is because most people aren't skeptical.
Quote:For all the reasons I’ve outlined, on an evidentialist epistemology we are rationally required to believe that no such beings exist. And due to the weight of the evidence against them, we can be reasonably confident in saying that we know they don’t exist, too.
I'm confident enough to say I believe there is no god. The problem when you move god's goalposts outside of reality is that it's impossible to demonstrate that reality is influenced in any way by that god.
