(March 17, 2017 at 2:06 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I follow this up by questioning whether or not atheism should be the default position, as many atheists assume.
I made a point recently that you agreed with. Maybe the entire point wasn't made.
Most commonly in a court case, a defendant is "innocent until proven guilty". While we aren't entirely sure they are innocent, they are treated as such until there is enough evidence to show that they are actually guilty.
This is the default position on any claim. We don't treat a claim like it is true until there is enough evidence to show that it is true. This is how atheism is responding on a basic level with theistic claims. If you understand the court case example, it shouldn't be too difficult to apply it here as well.
