RE: Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Disproving God
March 16, 2017 at 8:37 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2017 at 8:37 pm by masterofpuppets.)
(March 16, 2017 at 2:25 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 16, 2017 at 12:58 pm)ma5t3r0fpupp3t5 Wrote: You've made an equivocation fallacy here. It's not that atheists have no beliefs. It's that atheists have no belief in the existence of gods. It doesn't follow that atheists don't have beliefs about the purported "evidence" Christians give, or beliefs about the claim that a god exists.
Technically you are correct. I am highlighting how atheists aren't just blissfully unaware of God. They give reasons for why they are incredulous. When a theist replies that their objections aren't sound the atheist says it doesn't matter anyway because, you know, the definition of atheism. It's dodgy.
Maybe the actual problem is that the "objections aren't sound" isn't a valid point? I've never come across an atheist simply shrug it off and happily proclaim that because it's a lack of belief in the existence of a god, they are somehow immune to scrutiny even without justifying why they hold such a position.
"Faith is the excuse people give when they have no evidence."
- Matt Dillahunty.
- Matt Dillahunty.