Why You Should Be Atheist

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"For instance, intelligent atheists would recognize that evidence (defined narrowly) is not wholly relevant. Peter Higgs predicted the Higgs Boson mathematically before we had a shred of physical evidence. "

And thereby created a scientific hypotheis that later developed into a theory that may become a widely accepted theory as the results from the LHC come in.

God appears to be stuck at the hypothesis stage.

"Do you expect to find physical evidence of a non-physical entity? "

If that non-physical entity is credited with creating all that is physical then yes - we would expect to find evidence of that.

Also - although not really relevant to this thread but your signature:

"Which makes Richard Dawkins the intellectual equivalent of an amputee, furiously waving his stumps in the air, boasting that he has no hands.""

Or it shows evolution in progress. The old hard wiring in the brain is changing as it is evolutionarily advantageous that we stop allocating things we don't understand to magic and start trying to investigate and understand them through scientific method.

Its also not usually a good idea for a theist who believes in a miracle working God to bring up amputee's.

None of the reasoning in this post seems sound.

Then its probably a good idea to re-read it - if you still don't understand it that's OK - not everyone has to.

For example, the length of time a hypothesis remains a hypothesis says nothing about whether the hypothesis is true or false.

If the hypothesis remains untestable then comparing it to the Higgs field theory wasn't appropriate then was it.

The question then becomes are you going to base your life around an untestable hypothesis?

One could also have created the physical universe without leaving a calling card, signature or fingerprint. What would this kind of evidence even look like?

Well subject to the level of powers you are going to assign to God then yes - God could have created the entire universe 10 minutes ago and implanted all my memories in me at that moment.

The question is - is that a reasonable supposition?

You've not done your homework on what you believe, evidently.

Or you are not capable of thinking through what's in front of you. Which is the more likely I wonder?