RE: Atheism's Definition - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
December 3, 2011 at 10:08 am
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2011 at 10:09 am by Welsh cake.)
(December 3, 2011 at 9:20 am)lucent Wrote: There isn't any middle ground between not knowing and not believing. Either you don't know (agnostic) or you don't believe (atheist).Which is a false dichotomy when you consider that there are other distinct positions such as not caring for beliefs or lack of beliefs in a god (apatheist) and those who assert that a coherent definition of God(s) must be presented before the question of their existence can be meaningfully discussed (ignostic).
Quote:If, to the proposition of God, you think it is less likely than not, you have a belief about it. If you have no belief, you don't know.So if you have to consider the likelihood of the prospect of alien life existing on other worlds you therefore have to believe in aliens? You lucent are factually wrong and conflating knowledge with belief as usual.
Quote:There is no equivilence between the question of God, which has explanatory power, and the question of fairies, which explains absolutely nothing.Neither have been demonstrated to exist using logic, reason and evidence. God has no objective explanatory power, at all, assert it until you go blue in the face. Its merely your mental construct, your subjective placebo and nothing more.
Quote:It is the number one question on peoples minds, because over 90 percent of the world believes in a higher power. You have to think they're all crazy, but have you ever thought that you're the one who has the abnormal belief?Are you too dumb to realise you're making an appeal to common belief fallacy?
Quote:Theists need to stop trying to redefine the definition of atheism.Fixed for you.
Quote:To say you lack a belief in something is a meaningless statement. It is simply an attempt by the atheist to redefine the parameters of the debate and escape any burden of proof for their position.YOU have the burden proof. Now act like an adult and try and meet your obligation as the claimant by providing extraordinary evidence for your extraordinary claim or kindly go and fuck off back to the happy farm.
Quote:Rocks lack belief.You've got rocks in your head mate. Skip to 5:00 on this video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNDZb0KtJDk&t=5m