RE: Dr. Bill Craig's Debates: Why do Atheists lose/run away from debating him?
June 19, 2023 at 11:01 am
(June 19, 2023 at 1:19 am)Astreja Wrote:Maybe replace belief with lack of belief(June 19, 2023 at 12:53 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Hitchens also committed a blatant or elementary logical fallacy in the midst of the debate. Here are his words:
Hitchens: "There's no claim I know to make that "Atheism is True", because Atheism is the proposition that a certain proposition isn't True".
Atheism is a belief rather than a statement of knowledge. If you say "I believe in God" and I say "I don't," we can both be correct because we are stating our own beliefs. For me, atheism is true because I am accurately reporting my own perspective.
Things get muddy when you say "God exists" and I say "I don't believe you." You are now making a knowledge claim, namely that your god does exist, while I continue to state my own belief. My belief remains true for me, but your claim is indeterminate because you haven't yet demonstrated its truth value.
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