(December 26, 2011 at 11:22 am)5thHorseman Wrote: Sigh, you have described an Agnostic, then gone off the rails.
An 'Agnostic Atheist' is someone who doesn't, in any shape or form, believe in a god, but does not in rule out the massively remote possibility completely. Richard Dawkins is one.
Massively remote possibility means “0.000000000001% possibility that God exists!”
That is not an atheist thesis.
As regards Dawkins he realized his mistake and his “6”, in the “Delusion,” he corrected to a 6.9 in some interview.
Someone, in this forum, wrote the following:” The idea of a God is just so absurd that I have severe concerns about anyone who gives it any real thought and still sincerely believes,” I copied his sentence but I do beg his pardon because I did not think at the time to note his nick too.
Anyhow, the idea of a God is so absurd that you may not question its absurdity even by only 0.000000000001% uncertainty.
Keep the label “agnostic” but drop the label “atheist”, you need 0% possibility of existence for the latter.
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