RE: A question about atheistic “beliefs” (opinions, guesses, etc.)
June 28, 2021 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2021 at 4:06 pm by Frank Apisa.)
(June 28, 2021 at 2:51 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: All the way to equating gods and aliens- I guess it’s time for that part of the routine. Gods don’t have anything to do with aliens. They’re stories we tell for effect here on earth.
I don’t know whether or not alien life exists. I like to think it does, though, somewhere. Be a shame if we were all alone. Doesn’t even have to be intelligent. I like plants, I’d settle for some dumb alien flora.
I'd settle for some plants in this forum. Not a hell of a lot of intelligent life here...that's for sure.
(June 28, 2021 at 3:09 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(June 28, 2021 at 1:57 pm)Frank Apisa Wrote: Anyone who alleges that he/she KNOWS there are no gods...is full of shit.
I am agnostic about anything that has not been established as impossible. Leprechauns, angels, and fairies seem a very remote possibility here on Earth...but I cannot logically say they do not exist. Neither can you, but that won't stop you.
And yet you never actually deal with the statements I made.
If your problem is with "positive atheism" or "gnostic atheism", then you should deal with the arguments made by those people (there are a few on these boards, but not many). Usually the problem is with the definition of gods. Gnostic atheists do have some good arguments. They are not sufficient to cover all possible gods, but they may be sufficient to cover what most people call God. You should look them up.
I am an agnostic atheist, but you have not acknowledged that this label makes sense. You maintain that we must either call ourselves agnostics, or else are full of shit.
I have not said that at all. What I have said...MANY TIMES...is that all indications are that damn near EVERY person who uses the word "atheist" as a descriptor or part of a descriptor (as you do) either "believes" there are no gods or "believes" it is more likely that there are no gods than that there is at least one.
How about you?
Is your blind guess that it is more likely that there are no gods than that there is at least one?
Okay, if it is your blind guess.
Might even be correct.
But I don't know...and neither do you.
