(July 30, 2010 at 2:17 pm)Spencer Wrote: No people didn't own cars before they existed because they didn't have the knowledge to gather the materials and manipulate them in such a way to make an automobile. I apologize if I have kept you waiting long for a response. But at some point people believed that they could exist and began to develop and gain knowledge for how to pursue this invention. Sounds familiar.No, people didn't own cars before they existed for the very simple reason that it was impossible to own them. It has nothing to do with knowledge, nothing to do with believing. If something doesn't exist, you cannot own it.
If a certain position (i.e. "God exists") doesn't exist, you cannot believe in it.
Ergo, just as the people who lived before cars were invented didn't own cars, the people who lived before the idea of God was invented didn't have beliefs in God.
What do we call people who don't have beliefs in God? Atheists.
Q.E.D.
