(October 24, 2014 at 8:11 pm)Esquilax Wrote: What's so frustrating about this is that Mister A's position, where god claims are evaluated as they come in, rather than being in the possession of a pre-existing claim, is done to be both honest and polite to theists.A theist needs to have a definite concept of God in whose existence he believes.
But an atheist, I presume, is not a machine built for shooting down random theistic concepts of God.
He is a human being.
As a result, he can't just sit there waiting for a random theist to inform him of his personal idea of God (which may well be "dog") and then get all excited and try to refute it.
The atheist is not spared the necessity of coming up with his own full-featured worldview. He must know what he believes and what he does not believe. He needs to articulate for himself a finite personally significant number of concepts of God and prove that none of those exist in reality.
The burden of proof is on both of us.
