(September 19, 2012 at 2:43 pm)apophenia Wrote: No, the skeptical position would be to conclude that it is unproven and unknown. Concluding something is a fiction requires support of that proposition specifically. Skepticism is the withholding of belief in the absence of sufficient justification for belief.
I worded that poorly. What I meant to say was that a skeptic would not believe in anything supernatirual because there would be no evidence supporting it. Not believeing something and declaring with 100% certainty that it is absolutely false are two different things, and unfortunately my wording suggested the the latter when I meant the former. Sorry for the confusion.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
