(September 3, 2012 at 1:47 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(September 3, 2012 at 1:43 pm)ib.me.ub Wrote: atheists beleive there is no god.
igh: ah this old argument again? Really? Have you not been around the block before?
It's incorrect.
Atheists do not believe there is no god.
We simply do not believe in a god at all.
Do you not see the difference?
One is a positive claim, the other is not.
I used to have a lot of difficulty with this when I read Dawkins on it but I find it very helpful when I use the analogy of fairies. We don't assert there are no fairies. We just haven't got a belief in their existence. Just like the pink unicorn with black polka dots. We don't assert its non-existence. We just have no belief in the pink unicorn with black polka dots. I think the unicorn analogy makes it clearer.
