Positive Atheism

[Purple Rabbit]

I used to be a Postive Atheist before being set into Agnostic Atheism.

Every week, I watch (rather download the week's new video) of the Atheist-Experience (www.atheist-experience.com , archive section). This show is ran by Positive Atheists, meaning that they believe that gods do not exist, rather than just not believing in a god.

They make good points in thier discussions, and I really like thier logic on everything they talk about.

Sooo, Is Positive Atheism logical? Is Positive Atheism faith based just like religion?

I know the site. I love the arguments for the same reason. Matt Dillahunty is my favourite. IMO the positive atheism that they vent is not the same as proving a negative. At least that's what I conclude from their podcasts. Their claim seems to be that the knowledge we operate with on a day to day basis is not absolute but tentative and that truth assessments about reality by mere mortals like us are intrinsically relative statements. Though it is not possible to assert in an absolute way that gods do not exist, it is possible to assert that there is enough evidence to support the practical claim that gods do not exist. There are no traces in nature of it, it would contradict the things we know of for which is ample empirical evidence and so on. This is a positive claim about atheism. 'Knowing' in this sense means knowing enough. We know enough to draw tentative conclusions. In that way I am a positivist atheist myself and Richard Dawkins imo is too.