(September 19, 2012 at 3:33 pm)Darkstar Wrote: 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.
Well, in my experience, most of even the hardest core atheists are technically agnostic about the existence of gods and merely treat the matter as so unlikely to be true that they reject gods in a practical sense. And, of course, the practical reality of gods is what is really the issue between theists and atheists.
I do not know many who are absolutely, 100% certain that gods are nonexistent specifically because that implies the possession of knowledge. This includes myself.
What I'm basically asking is, how does one disbelieve in gods while accepting other forms of the supernatural as potentially valid phenomena? My atheism is based on the idea that no credible evidence exists to suggest that any supernatural being has ever been recorded to exist, nor any supernatural phenomena has ever happened. I disbelieve in gods simply because they are included under that classification.
