(November 22, 2019 at 10:22 pm)Tom Fearnley Wrote: Atheism: The belief that God almost certainly doesn't exist.I think most atheists will disagree with this definition, the terms "almost" and "certainly" assume that you have some precise metric or probability measure of beings that might or might not exist. Also associating atheism with belief doesn't seem to serve your position very much.
(November 22, 2019 at 10:22 pm)Tom Fearnley Wrote: Reason for this: There is no evidence for god where there should be (not just that "there is no evidence..." that's agnosticism.)
Counter from theists: God created the universe/did the fine tuning/created humans/the Kalam/The argument from contingency/the Fine Tuning argument etc etc.
My counter for atheism that beats all arguments for God: God doesn't have a brain or neurons - he's immaterial not made of matter or energy - so how can he think thoughts or have knowledge? Without a brain or neurons he couldn't create a universe or create anything else.
With all due respect, your counter is ridiculous under any reasonable conception of God. Why should God have a brain to create a universe ? Any believer can imagine countless possibilities for an infinitely powerful being to create a universe without invoking a brain.
