(September 29, 2014 at 10:54 am)Esquilax Wrote: Turek, for those interested, was the one making the rounds in atheist circles a while back for arguing that atheism can't just be a lack of belief in god, because that definition of atheism doesn't prove that there's no god by itself.
Just in case anyone was wondering about the level of argumentation that guy is at.
This is exactly why it's hard for me to read more than a few pages at a time. Bad arguments make me cringe inside. The whole book is the wrong tack to take with this atheist: seeing a bunch of weak arguments and no strong ones was a major factor in tipping me over to atheism in the first place: I had a semester where I took Intro to Religion taught by an apologist and Logic 201 on the same days; so I would hear an argument for God first thing in the morning; and an explanation of why it's a bad argument next thing. I had been leaning toward skepticism in general for years; but held back from applying it to religious claims, however seeing the flaws in those claims exposed so clearly sealed the deal.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
