RE: Atheism Undermines Knowledge
May 6, 2013 at 12:18 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2013 at 12:41 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(May 3, 2013 at 4:54 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(May 3, 2013 at 4:19 pm)paulpablo Wrote: There is no different aspect of atheism. It's a lack of a belief in god, end of story end of question.
So you couldn't say that there are Buddhist atheists, humanist atheists etc etc...
Don't be silly
They aren't aspects of atheism. Atheism is an aspect of them.
(May 3, 2013 at 5:20 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 3, 2013 at 5:06 pm)Gearbreak Wrote: You should stop using the word atheism and use whatever the word is for the philosophy you're targeting is. Atheists just don't believe in god. They can still believe in other things and just not believe in god. You're arguing with a philosophy. And mistaking atheism for that philosophy.Yes, you can be an atheist apart from any specific belief. But you cannot be a logically consistent atheist IF you believe in the power of inductive reasoning. In other words, if belief in god is necessary to believe (x) then an atheist who believes in (x) is not being logically consistent.
Or is evidence that belief in god is not necessary to believe (x).
(May 3, 2013 at 5:45 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Splitting hairs.
Mormonism is to theism is as Buddhism is to atheism.
Likewise Christianity is not an aspect of theism? Yeah, use a different word if you like > address the question.
Correct, Christianity is not an aspect of theism.
(May 4, 2013 at 7:02 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 4, 2013 at 4:56 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: As has already been said, you asserted it....and you have not refuted it.
Assertions do not requre refutation as there is no good reason to accept them as true in the first place.