(January 10, 2015 at 3:17 am)IATIA Wrote:(December 29, 2014 at 7:11 am)W.Smith Wrote: For someone to say there must be a God, for how else can we explain the existence of the universe.... or for someone to say there cannot be a God because we cannot prove the existence of such a God... are equally unacceptable!As robvalue and some others have said, most atheists do not acknowledge god, but do not insist that there is none. I on the other hand insist that there is no god. It is like standing in an empty driveway. There is no car, no evidence, nothing to prove. A theist, however, insists that there is a god because the book god wrote says there is a god or they 'feel' there is a god or last, but not least by any stretch of the imagination, they have talked to god.
We all know what a car is and presumably it is pretty easy to tell if there is one in the driveway or not. What's a god? Where's its 'driveway'? Big difference. Being a level 6 atheist has nothing to do with certainty and everything to do with speaking accurately.