(February 17, 2020 at 7:57 am)Belacqua Wrote:(February 17, 2020 at 6:34 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: Atheism and Theism are about your beleif in a single claim, "a god exists". The fact that somebody thinks they have claculated gods exsistence at 95% doesnt answer the question of whether or not they believe the claim " a god exists." In that scenario someone could say wow 95% and believe the claim, making them a theist, or someone could say still some room for doubt in there at 5% so im not going to believe yet, making them an atheist. Agnostic and Gnostic address knowledge they are not a middle ground or on any sliding percentage in between atheism and theism, because anything short of belief is non belief.
This would make sense if human beings were computers running on some kind of flow chart.
But the human mind is not a fundamentally logical thing. It's entirely possible for people to believe a little bit. Or to believe opposing things at the same time. Or to believe one minute and not the next.
Naturally, YOU are perfectly rational and without the fuzziness of natural human confusion. But a lot of people aren't.
No it is not possible, you can't believe a god exists and doesnt exist at the sametime, it is impossible. You can believe a god exists and not know that a god exists and thats where gnostic and agnostic comes in. A weak belief and a strong belief is still belief.
