Atheists... why do you believe that God doesn't exist?
April 27, 2014 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2014 at 4:56 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(April 27, 2014 at 4:12 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: In the bible god interacts with the 'natural' world all the time, doesn't it?
Looks like Frodo's god is by definition not the God of the bible.
Notice the straw-manning and goalpost moving behavior above:
Question: "How is it rational to reject most supernatural entities as nonexistent but accept one as existent when the evidence is equally lacking for all of them? Is it not more rational to reject belief in all supernatural entities?"
Answer: "Supernatural entities can't have evidence, therefore your question is invalid."
Really? That's equivalent to stating: "Unicorns don't exist, but leprechauns do."
"Why?"
"Because belief in unicorns is irrational."
"Why?"
"Because you can't have evidence of the supernatural."
It's not even wrong.
Quote:The phrase not even wrong describes any argument that purports to be scientific but fails at some fundamental level, usually in that it contains a terminal logical fallacy or it cannot be falsified by experiment (i.e. tested with the possibility of being rejected), or cannot be used to make predictions about the natural world.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
Summary: OP believes in entities lacking evidence because he believes, and disbelieves in entities lacking evidence because he disbelieves.
OP defines this as "rational"
:. Therefore atheism "irrational" because it equally disbelieves all entities lacking evidence.
Now: how does the OP explain the fact that he does not believe in any supernatural entity other than his deity, but also an atheist to every other deity ever believed in? Partial list:
[quote]Aphrodite
- Z -
Zeus
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/..._index.htm
By what method is one an atheist of all deities, expect for one?
