"God doesn't Exist"- Claim or Conclusion

[Mister Agenda]

A little while ago I was debating about the term "God doesn't exist" and someone said that one says it because it's easier, instead of saying something completely unneeded like, "Due to complete lack of evidence, a god concept should be thought of as highly improbable and therefore should be exist. That got me thinking. Would the "claim" "God doesn't exist" be thought of as more of a conclusion that God doesn't exist, i.e. "Due to lack of evidence, one can safely conclude that a theistic God shouldn't exist," which would be shortened to, "God doesn't exist"? Thanks in advance.

I would say "God does not exist" is a claim. What an atheist usually inductively reasons is something like:

1. There is no (or insufficient) evidence for God
2. Therefore God does not exist.

Speaking of unsupported claims, this is one. There is certainly nothing you could reasonably have gathered from this forum to justify you thinking that this is 'what an atheist usually inductively reasons'. The usual reasoning, as you will have encountered repeatedly here is 1. I do not know of sufficient evidence to justify belief in God. 2. Therefore I do not believe in God.

However, the conclusion does not necessarily follow from the premise because even if there was no evidence for God, a person could not conclude with anything near certainty there is no God because our knowledge is limited to examination of the natural world and we lack the capacity to examine any supernatural world. To fix it:

Which is why you imagine that is our 'usual reasoning' instead of what we have repeatedly told you is our usual reasoning.

1` There is no (or insufficient) evidence for God
2` Therefore God probably does not exist.

So, "God does not exist" is a claim. "God probably does not exist" would be a conclusion.

Thanks for 'fixing it' to what we say all the time anyway. What an insight! I wonder where you got THAT from? If only atheists could think so clearly! Thanks for sharing your wisdom/demonstrated that you seem unable to hear what we say.