RE: Evidence for atheist claims
May 3, 2016 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2016 at 12:11 pm by Mister Agenda.)
Wryetui Wrote:This deserves a bit of specific attention. We don't have a lack of beliefs. We lack one particular belief, that any deity is actually real. We can and do have all kinds of other beliefs. The evidence for our lack of that belief is that we say we lack that belief; which should be good enough for any reasonable person as a report on another person's internal state. If a particular atheist makes a stronger statement, then they have a burden of proof.Quote:I am starting this post because, so far, no atheist ever showed me evidence for their beliefs (or as you say, "lack of beliefs") and I am curious.
For instance, I consider myself an agnostic atheist. I don't know there is no God, I highly doubt it, but I'm aware that I might be wrong on my estimation of the odds. However, the God of theodicy doesn't exist because of contradictory attributes; and the God that stopped the sun in the sky and flooded the earth to the mountaintops doesn't exist because the physical evidence indicates those things never happened. The jury is out on the God of Deism and the God of Providence; and probably always will be; their only problem is lack of any concrete reason to think they're real; but at least they aren't self-contradictory nor in direct conflict with what we know.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.