(March 7, 2014 at 9:18 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(March 7, 2014 at 8:50 pm)rsb Wrote: Well then I think basically "atheism" in your definition is useless as the lack of evidence for a god has absolutely no "proof" that there is not one.
This is exactly why atheism is NOT the claim that there are no gods. Atheism is the lack of BELIEF that gods exist.
Most atheists are open to the possibility that a god exist. What our position actually is, is that there is insufficient supporting evidence to justify BELIEF that a god exists.
Do you understand the difference?
Not really. It all sounds like one hand clapping to me.
I guess I will have to join you on the anti-theist part, without wholehearted philosophical agreement. I reserve the right to trademark atheist though and steal it from you
