Why Do Atheists Criticize People's Beliefs?
May 21, 2017 at 5:42 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2017 at 5:45 pm by Valyza1.)
(May 21, 2017 at 5:33 pm)Alex K Wrote:(May 21, 2017 at 4:27 pm)Valyza1 Wrote: Ironically, the words in bold seem themselves to be unjustified. What grounds do you have for claiming this? Obviously, if you can justify a statement logically, it is probably right, but that in and of itself doesn't mean that if you can't, it's probably wrong.
Because the number of possible false claims is so large that a randomly chosen one is almost certainly false. Only evidence changes those odds.
But when people make claims, are they generally choosing from a pool of random claims? That seems unlikely. It seems rather that most of the time they are choosing from a pool of claims they actually believe and usually, in order to actually believe in a claim there must at least be some kernel of truth to it, which cuts out most random propositions.
