(March 22, 2016 at 5:33 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I lack belief not because I credit humanity with extraordinary powers of reason, but simply because I see no evidence and I ain't built with faith.
"Seeing no evidence" means, you feel the rules of human reason are binding upon the topic, and those rules have not been complied with adequately. There are two assertions here:
1) human reason is the qualified authority
2) this authority does not allow the god proposal, due to a failure to meet the authority's evidence rules.
In order to arrive at "lack belief" in regards to gods, a person first has to have belief in the above assertions regarding human reason.