(October 14, 2017 at 11:46 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 14, 2017 at 8:00 pm)Hammy Wrote: Huh. Isn't that what atheists do when they say they don't believe in a God?
Oh let me guess... you're conflating belief with knowledge and pretending an atheist has to pretend to know there isn't a God merely because they don't believe in one. You sure love your pretending.
Not exactly. I'm saying that least when I was an atheist, I wasn't some pussified version. I could at least say that the proposition "God exists" was not true. To profess that "God exists" is not true is a knowledge statement about the proposition. So what say you? Is the proposition "God exists" true or not true, because those are the only options.
Why wasn't " I don't know" listed as a possible option? Currently, it would seem that the existence of a supernatural world or god is in the unproven category. Hence, in the absence of rational proof and conclusive evidence/data, why not, in the spirit of intellectual honesty and curiosity, refrain from making any guesses or speculations and open oneself up to considering all of the possibilities (whatever those might be)?
