RE: The Case for Atheism
August 4, 2014 at 10:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2014 at 11:10 pm by Jenny A.)
(May 8, 2013 at 7:21 pm)ebg Wrote: Atheist or religious persons would't know what scientific proof IS if it was thrown in their faces!! 75% of you all didn't even take Trig...let alone calculas...maybe got B+ in High School chemistry. Oh, yes I know there's smart people from Harvard that are atheist, but their also religious people too from Harvard. Most atheist replace biblical gods with scholastic ones. Atheist always argue for scientific proof, but most of them don't have the education or only have a psuedo knowledge from wikapedia to know what exactly is scientific proof. Just keeping attributing you reasoning to your scholastic gods because obviously the majority just don't have the brains to for reasoning or contemplation
And you think you're superior? Like to see a little more evidence for that before I take you as "gospel."
(May 9, 2013 at 11:43 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 9, 2013 at 8:16 am)Faith No More Wrote: ...what we're trying to explain to you is that your question demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of what exactly atheism entails.I believe it, atheism, entails much more than you currently allow. Even just the lack of belief influences the beliefs you do have. The exclusion of God, gods, divine influences and transcendent principles all have logical conclusions. While such exclusions make a good working methodology for science, it is an impoverished way to approach all of life.
It isn't the exclusion of, but the lack of evidence for. Should evidence turn up, I'll rethink.
But I admit there are logical consequences that follow from not believing. For example, we are on our own and moral behavior is up to us.
Once again I've read fore and aft in this old thread and there's nothing new. Christians try to shift the burden of proof to show there is no god.
But the burden of proof to show anything exists (no matter how many people believe it does) rests on the proposer. There is no more evidence that Yahweh exists than that Zeus does. You ready to believe in Zeus?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.