RE: Are Atheists using Intellectually Dishonest Arguments?
March 8, 2018 at 2:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2018 at 2:38 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
The old version of agnosticism is basically agnostic atheism, yeah. Nowadays it means people who are "unsure".
Most people are agnostic atheists, but I do maintain that often they do also believe there is no god, although not always. They just don't believe with complete certainty.
Basically, if you believe the likelihood of God's existence is any less than 50%, then you at least to some extent have reasons to believe that there isn't a god... and you're not just like some baby who hasn't developed any beliefs either way yet.
I believe that there almost certainly is no God. So I do largely believe that there is no God. I'm not a strong atheist though because I don't believe God is impossible. Although some gods or versions of God are indeed impossible, not all of them are. But even the ones that are possible, I believe are so unlikely to exist that it would be silly for me to claim that I don't hold any sort of positive belief that God and gods don't exist. I do. I don't hold any positive knowledge that they don't exist. Throughout our daily lives we have many beliefs that we are very certain about but not completely certain about, and that we don't know to be true.
The most vitally important distinction here is the difference between belief and knowledge.
Most people are agnostic atheists, but I do maintain that often they do also believe there is no god, although not always. They just don't believe with complete certainty.
Basically, if you believe the likelihood of God's existence is any less than 50%, then you at least to some extent have reasons to believe that there isn't a god... and you're not just like some baby who hasn't developed any beliefs either way yet.
I believe that there almost certainly is no God. So I do largely believe that there is no God. I'm not a strong atheist though because I don't believe God is impossible. Although some gods or versions of God are indeed impossible, not all of them are. But even the ones that are possible, I believe are so unlikely to exist that it would be silly for me to claim that I don't hold any sort of positive belief that God and gods don't exist. I do. I don't hold any positive knowledge that they don't exist. Throughout our daily lives we have many beliefs that we are very certain about but not completely certain about, and that we don't know to be true.
The most vitally important distinction here is the difference between belief and knowledge.
