(June 11, 2011 at 6:19 am)diffidus Wrote: Finally, there are people on this site who believe that God does not exist based upon it being unlikely, due to the lack of empirical evidence. But this 'unlikely' implies a knowledge of the probability that God does not exist. Upon what set of empirical measurements is this probability estimated? The answer is none!! Atheism, on these grounds, is a huge leap of faith into the dark world of Humankinds lack of knowledge.
If it takes faith to lack belief in god, then it takes faith to lack belief in anything else. So by your argument, we all have huge amounts faith in many things. We all have huge faith in lack of belief in Santa Claus, we all have faith in lack of belief in big foot.
Try and refute my point without resulting to special pleading or argumentum ad populum. For which both are fallacious arguments.
I don't even need to put any effort into this. Your arguments were flawed from the start.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
