RE: Christian Apologetics and Arguments are Futile
October 30, 2013 at 7:07 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2013 at 7:09 pm by bennyboy.)
(October 30, 2013 at 6:01 pm)GodsRevolt Wrote: Just like I have noticed that some atheists in this forum do not define themselves as being 100% certain that there is no God, they only believe there is no God.The agnosticism of atheists is really just an expression of the rules of evidence. Given the proposition of ANY thing, no matter how far-fetched, there are two possible states of evidence: you know for sure that it exists, or you don't. Proving for sure that a thing DOES NOT exist is impossible. Maybe God is hiding under a rock on a moon near Betelgeuse, for example.
Atheists are also technically agnostic about:
-fairies
-leprechauns
-ghosts
-Zeus
-the Flying Spaghetti Monster
So I don't think you should take the slight agnosticism as an expression of possibility that these people are going to adopt the God position any time soon.
Christian agnosticism, on the other hand, is based on the strength of faith to stand up to the considerable CONTRARY evidence that constantly assails it. For example, some Christians, when faced with starving African babies, will have an emotional/intellectual crisis: how could a good God allow such unnecessary suffering in someone who's so obviously free of sin? When faced with the Noah's Ark story, a Christian can look up the number of known species, and their volume, and realize that such a ship would not be possible to build. But at some point, a rational Christian is going to have to redefine his God idea or live in a state of cognitive dissonance: believing in ideas that are clearly baloney.
