@ the OP
FaithvsFact - I agree, strong atheism is a faith position.
That is if both 1. if 'strong atheism' is to be defined as 'gnostic atheism' (as opposed to agnostic), or IOW: Atheism that claims that there absolutely is no God (or are no gods) - and 2. Faith is defined as belief without any evidence to support it. Because there indeed is no positive evidence that proves God absolutely doesn't exist (after all, if there was evidence that could do that, it would be going beyond evidence into absolute proof). There is no evidence to support the claim "God absolutely doesn't exist".
Being an agnostic atheist or so-called 'weak atheist' I simply do not believe in God. I do not claim that he absolutely doesn't exist but I think that he almost certainly doesn't for probabilistic reasons.
P.S. On a battle between faith and fact... I'd go with the facts... and that's a fact (well, almost lol - I can't really be absolutely sure of even my own actions
) (including 'what I'd go with').
EDIT: I didn't answer your questions because I'm not a strong atheist, but I'd like to anyway.
Ok, as to question 1: I consider the only real 'facts' to be scientific facts... which are 'truths' about reality that are backed up by extremely strong evidence but not absolutely proved - there is no absolute proof in science (nor does there need to be of course, facts are certainly strong enough).
And to question 2: I consider 'faith' to be belief despite the lack of evidence
EvF
FaithvsFact - I agree, strong atheism is a faith position.
That is if both 1. if 'strong atheism' is to be defined as 'gnostic atheism' (as opposed to agnostic), or IOW: Atheism that claims that there absolutely is no God (or are no gods) - and 2. Faith is defined as belief without any evidence to support it. Because there indeed is no positive evidence that proves God absolutely doesn't exist (after all, if there was evidence that could do that, it would be going beyond evidence into absolute proof). There is no evidence to support the claim "God absolutely doesn't exist".
Being an agnostic atheist or so-called 'weak atheist' I simply do not believe in God. I do not claim that he absolutely doesn't exist but I think that he almost certainly doesn't for probabilistic reasons.
P.S. On a battle between faith and fact... I'd go with the facts... and that's a fact (well, almost lol - I can't really be absolutely sure of even my own actions
) (including 'what I'd go with').EDIT: I didn't answer your questions because I'm not a strong atheist, but I'd like to anyway.
Ok, as to question 1: I consider the only real 'facts' to be scientific facts... which are 'truths' about reality that are backed up by extremely strong evidence but not absolutely proved - there is no absolute proof in science (nor does there need to be of course, facts are certainly strong enough).
And to question 2: I consider 'faith' to be belief despite the lack of evidence
EvF
