(March 11, 2017 at 5:57 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: On the other hand if God exists, then it does have profound significance, one touches every issue of a person's life. So to not seriously wonder about God would be rather incurious. There is lots of evidence presented to support the idea that God exists, so it's not a lack of evidence; but rather, that you do not feel the evidence supports the conclusion.
Even if there were evidence for a god, I'm still not sure how I could differentiate between the thousands of god claims to know which one is the real one.
If we are addressing the Christian God specifically, He is only a concept. It's the concept that theists imbue significance with. Atheists see no significance in a being that they don't believe in. That's why I don't "seriously wonder" about Him. It doesn't mean that I am incurious. I would argue, actually, that theists are incurious, because instead of trying to get answers, they're satisfied with a made-up one.
That brings me to my third point. I don't agree that there is "lots of evidence" in favour of God. If it's the Christian God, I would actually argue that there is lots of evidence against his existence (age of the Universe, omnipotence-free will paradox, no evidence of the resurrection).
"Faith is the excuse people give when they have no evidence."
- Matt Dillahunty.
- Matt Dillahunty.