(September 11, 2014 at 12:42 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: I'm curious what types of evidence would be necessary to influence your 100% certainty there is no intelligence to the design of reality? I mean, simply the fact that intelligent life exists seems to imply we are experiencing more than just random, chaotic matter flying around in space. But that's just my opinion...
You aren't even reading the responses to your posts, are you?
Very few atheists claim 100% certainty that a god or gods do not exist. Several people have told you this already.
Atheism and agnosticism are NOT mutually exclusive positions.
For the vast majority of atheists, their atheism is a provisional position, not a dogmatic one.
As long as the there continues to be insufficient evidence, reasoned argument and valid/sound logic to support the god claim, our atheism will continue.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
