(September 10, 2010 at 5:05 pm)norbrook Wrote: I thought this was an atheist website? I just want to get YOU guys thinking...I'm not saying what I believe in is correct, or indeed any other religion. Listen, you believe there is no God...why? Thats what im basically saying here...as you say, nobody can prove if a God does or does not exist, so i cant actually explain to you through science how God has always existed, but then again you cant prove he has never existed.
This is a basic misunderstanding of atheists that virtually every theist seems to have. We can't disprove all gods. Many atheists merely lack belief in God. We might believe that the existence of any god is unlikely, because the notion of a disembodied mind outside time is so far from our experience, just as you probably believe that the existence of fairies is unlikely. Also, certain definitions of God, like God as an all-loving being, are less likely given the existence of, say, immense suffering. Nonetheless, few of us are certain of God's non-existence, so hold no burden of proof.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
