RE: Ok I admit it
March 4, 2014 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2014 at 12:46 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(March 4, 2014 at 11:35 am)JesusLover1 Wrote:(March 4, 2014 at 11:33 am)pocaracas Wrote: Santa should show up at a certain time... However, he doesn't... :hmmmm:
And you wouldn't need to actually buy presents to give to your kids, if he existed, right?
It's an easier concept to falsify.
Well you could reason that maybe when Santa comes to deliver the presents, he alters your mind to make you forgot he was there and that you were the one that bought the gifts.
The simple answer is that the parents KNOW they're the ones providing the gifts, and if the kids don't find out for themselves, eventually they will let them in on it.
(March 4, 2014 at 11:52 am)JesusLover1 Wrote:(March 4, 2014 at 11:51 am)ThePinsir Wrote: We've been to the North Pole and found it lacking a workshop.
As this relates to the God question:
We've discovered the naturalistic means by which things happen that used to be attributed to him. The formation of stars and planets, geologic processes, even the evolution and complexity of life.
Does this prove God doesn't exist? No, but it makes him superfluous.
So why are you an atheist if you can't prove it?
FINALLY, an important question instead of an assumption. First of all, note the double-standard: Why are you a Christian if you can't prove it? Because that's pretty much the reason we're atheists instead of Christians (or Muslims or Hindus and so forth). No one has proved any God or god exists. Heck, no one has even proven ghosts exist, let alone super-powerful spirits that could be considered gods.
Most atheists are agnostic atheists, also know as 'weak atheists' or 'negative atheists'. We don't make a positive claim that God does not exist, we just don't believe anyone else's claim that God (any God) actually DOES exist. We don't believe in God because the people who DO believe in God have not made what we consider an adequate case to believe them.
I can't prove cold fusion will never work as a power source, but I'm so skeptical that it ever will that it would have to be demonstrated and backed up by peer review of scientists in the relevant fields before I would believe it. I don't believe in God for the same reason I don't believe in Bigfoot or leprechauns. Insufficient evidence.
