(August 30, 2018 at 12:39 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 30, 2018 at 12:08 pm)Kit Wrote: It is not willful ignorance on part of the atheist when there is absolutely no evidence for the existence of that for which the believer is making a positive claim of existence.
That reads like a polemic. I wouldn't be so certain. There are things that are evident about the world. People can reason from some of those observations that God exists. You may believe that that specific conclusion does not follow from particular observations, but saying flat out that there is "no evidence" inverts the relationship between evidence and the conclusions one could possibly draw from the evidence. As such it is an unfounded assertion. Let me show you the difference...
Step 1: There is something evident about the world.
Step 2: Some conclusion follows from what is evident.
Step 3: What is evident supports the conclusion.
versus
Step 1: No conclusions can be drawn from something evident about the world.
You lost me, Neo. Granted he's likely exaggerating or mistaken by saying that there's no evidence, but your reply seems to only further confuse matters.