RE: Please present positive arguments why you think atheism is true
April 23, 2012 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2012 at 3:24 pm by Ace Otana.)
(April 23, 2012 at 3:02 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I'm not going to make the point againabout your insistance on impossible evidence. I don't think I'll ever understand how you can justify that!
The above would make you a materialist. If you think that fits, then the onus falls to you to defend that.
So your particular brand of atheism is materialism.
Ok, that's much more clear. I get where you're going now.
Yeah I'm a materialist. The reason being is because I've seen no reason to think that there is anything outside of the physical. How can one examine the non-physical? How can one measure it? Test it? Observe it?
The fact that I've seen no way to verify it is why I've ruled it out. Same reason why I don't believe in god. How can you know with some measure that there is such a being?
Science gives me the tools. Like for example if I wanted to investigate the microscopic, science provides a microscope. If I wanted to investigate the cosmos, science provides a telescope. With them I'll be able to see and share with others what I see. It's testable, measurable.
A god is not. See the problem?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
