(July 28, 2017 at 11:10 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:
(July 27, 2017 at 6:08 pm)SteveII Wrote: That is nowhere near what that sentence says, implies, or means. I will try again.
1. Supernatural events are extraordinary claims because of difficulty obtaining evidence.
2. Ordinary claims are ones in which good evidence is possible to obtain.
3. There is no evidence for atheism
4. There is some evidence for God (natural theology, revealed theology, the person of Jesus/events of his life, personal experience, properly basic belief in the supernatural in ~90% or the world's population).
5. If evidence for the existence of God can be obtained and cannot be obtained for his non-existence, then on the question of God's existence, at worst, the atheism is making the extraordinary claim, and at best the distinction of 'extraordinary' becomes meaningless.
There is as much evidence for atheism as for your god. And, for the Nth time, atheism isn't a claim.
Already addressed this in a discussion with pocaracas later in the thread.