RE: Atheists Claim Agnostics are Atheist
June 3, 2013 at 9:14 am
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2013 at 9:15 am by little_monkey.)
(June 3, 2013 at 8:23 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm agnostic about God in much the same way that Schrodinger is agnostic about his cat: he neither lacks nor firmly holds a belief about either the cat's survival or demise. He sees both answers as simultaneously true/false.
The dirty trick that some people use to force a default by allowing only a particular question: "Do you have an active belief that God exists?" doesn't work for me. I see both God and not-God as viable possibilities, and am completely unable to weight the probabilities of either outcome. God is both real and unreal for me, until I get a chance to open the box. This is NOT a lack of a belief-- it is an unresolved conditional belief-- and it's rude to force someone in this state to see it otherwise.
Just about anybody will say that there a possibility of God or no God ( ok, exception for the insane who knows everything), but the question of belief is a different matter. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I choose to believe there isn't one mainly because there is no evidence or convincing arguments to believe in one. Note: it's a choice that requires no proof on my part. And I can always choose differently, but in my case, I would need such extraordinary evidence or such convincing arguments that it would be impossible for me to continue along this present choice.
Joe
