(February 17, 2014 at 9:13 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: God is true, I don't know it's trueThis is as succinct a summation of your arguments so far as I have seen. You are right, you don't know it's true. It follows that you cannot demonstrate it. You cannot prove the thing you believe in. Therefore, I have no reason to believe it, as you cannot demonstrate it.
Hence, I think the following part of your post applies more accurately to you:
Quote:If you have nothing at all to base this upon then it's as good as a blind faith in something you can't know. Particularly if you want to state that's "the truth", the truth because it's your own opinion? That's not how it works.My "basis" for my atheism is that I could not produce the god I believed in. So I stopped believing in him because, as you note, my opinion wasn't going to make him exist. So it follows that your opinion, backed by the opinion of others, is no more convincing. Especially when you admit that you cannot produce the god that you opine exists.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
