RE: Why are atheist...atheist?
July 15, 2011 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2011 at 11:40 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You should refine your argument to leave out the creator god part. It would be a stronger argument without that added baggage.
Even so, if your entire argument was "the unknowable is unknowable" you would have to have some reason to believe that there are things which are unknowable. Not currently unknown, but unknowable, a not-so-subtle difference.
If your argument were "We cannot know what is currently unknown" you would have to have some reason to believe that the thing you are describing is unknown. Not unknown to you, but unknown to anyone.
The crux of this whole thing, is that when you say "god"..you appear to mean "that which is unknown to me", which is not what an atheist, strong or weak, is rejecting, refuting, denying the existence of.....etc.
This alone makes your conclusion a non sequitur.
I personally feel that this re-defining of the concept of god is intentional. Again, this is only my opinion, but you appear to have redefined god so that you could use your definition to support a conclusion which you had already reached.
Even so, if your entire argument was "the unknowable is unknowable" you would have to have some reason to believe that there are things which are unknowable. Not currently unknown, but unknowable, a not-so-subtle difference.
If your argument were "We cannot know what is currently unknown" you would have to have some reason to believe that the thing you are describing is unknown. Not unknown to you, but unknown to anyone.
The crux of this whole thing, is that when you say "god"..you appear to mean "that which is unknown to me", which is not what an atheist, strong or weak, is rejecting, refuting, denying the existence of.....etc.
This alone makes your conclusion a non sequitur.
I personally feel that this re-defining of the concept of god is intentional. Again, this is only my opinion, but you appear to have redefined god so that you could use your definition to support a conclusion which you had already reached.
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