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A question about atheistic “beliefs” (opinions, guesses, etc.)
RE: A question about atheistic “beliefs” (opinions, guesses, etc.)
(June 28, 2021 at 10:59 am)Frank Apisa Wrote: As I wrote earlier...anything that has not been established as impossible...is possible.

So...unless that entity has been established as impossible...it is possible.

The set of entities which can be imagined is limitless.  The set of entities which exist are finite.  The chance, therefore, of any particular imagined entity (or group of entities) to match an existent entity is vanishingly small without some sort of evidence for that entity.

All of our knowledge (even science) is based on probability logic, not absolute proof.  One can always add one more bad bandaid to a failed theory to keep it working, where a reasonable person would just throw it away in favor of a superior one.

If you truly hold to this logic about gods, then you must accept the possibility of any particular imagined entity as actually existing, when I have already established that the odds of that are close to zero.  I presume you are agnostic about leprechauns, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, angels, and fairies as well.
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RE: A question about atheistic “beliefs” (opinions, guesses, etc.) - by HappySkeptic - June 28, 2021 at 1:05 pm

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