RE: Atheists who become Christians
December 26, 2014 at 2:11 pm
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2014 at 2:13 pm by Nope.)
(December 26, 2014 at 2:04 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: @Nope
Mister Agenda says that a good reason to believe that there is no reason that exists to believe in God is because he doesn't know of one.
I know of no reason why an elephant shouldn't be standing on my porch, so it must be there.
Not knowing is no good reason to doubt something. It's only a position of no knowledge.
I think that your example of an elephant on the porch fails doesn't compare to Mister A's because he said that there was no reason to believe something doesn't exist. You are saying that there is no reason to disbelieve that something exists(the elephant on your porch) Those are opposite ways of looking at the world.
There is no reason to believe that there is an elephant on my front porch so I don't even need to check is different then I believe that an elephant is on my porch because I have no reason to disbelieve but no reason to believe either.
I don't believe there is an elephant on my porch because I live in the wrong region for wild elephants, my porch probably couldn't hold one(unless there are minielephants) and I didn't hear anything outside.
You believe in an elephanton your front porch just because you want to believe. Unless you have evidence to support such a strange claim, I am being reasonable in disbelieving that something huge is about to ring my doorbell
The same is true of god. There is no evidence that there is a deity so the burden is on the religious person to prove their claims.