RE: Agnostic: a pointless term?
February 3, 2015 at 1:12 am
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2015 at 1:16 am by Pizza.)
(February 3, 2015 at 1:08 am)wiploc Wrote:I know that. I'm a "strong atheist."(February 2, 2015 at 9:09 pm)Pizz-atheist Wrote: All "strong atheists" (I hate this term by the way) are saying is that the likelihood is low.
Strong atheists (I love this term, by the way) are people who believe that gods don't exist.
(February 3, 2015 at 1:08 am)wiploc Wrote: What they say doesn't matter, and how they came to have their belief doesn't matter.

Quote:Plantinga says that he cannot disbelieve in god. Can't do that, regardless of the state of the evidence. So you can picture him in a position where he'd have to say, "Well, yes, the odds of god existing are low---but I believe in him anyway!"

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
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