I don't care about the debate. I'm just saying it is theoretically possible to disprove a hypothetical god by disproving one of its attributes.
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Unfortunately most people then use a "god of the gaps" type argument to keep their god in existence. Shame really.
The old, "You don't know that I'm wrong.", argument. One of my favorite responses is, "Which is more pathetic, I don't know that you're wrong, or you don't know that you're right?"
Good point. Cool post. Perhaps even sig worthy (for someone at least, I like mine for now).
That wasn't sarcasm btw...I WOULD actually put it on my sig if my sig allowed for room LOL - it's maxed out. That is a pretty damn cool response EvF (May 16, 2009 at 7:01 am)Tiberius Wrote: Atheism and Agnosticism aren't the same thing though. Atheism deals with belief only, and agnosticism deals with knowledge only. You can be an agnostic and believe in god (coxrox was an example), so I fail to see how your argument stands up. I think they are the same thing and the following that I wrote some time ago explains my logic: Quote:"Theism" in its broadest sense is a label that defines someone who believes in a god or gods, it is based on the Greek word for God ("Theos") and essentially means "with God". To be a theist carries no philosophical implications in and of itself because you could be a believer that there is a god without believing that such a god left us any guidance directly of through human intermediaries'. You could be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Deist but to be "a theist" means no more or less than to say that that person believes in a god or gods ... any specific religious beliefs are over & above the fact that that person is a theist. When you look at other definitions of atheism you'll alos note that most consider agnosticism to be weak atheism anyway ... it's not an argument I really subscribe to but it does support the idea that many don't view the two as much different. Kyu Angry Atheism
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Well firstly I think you showed that piece to me before, and I corrected the origin of the word "atheist". The 'a' doesn't come from English grammar, but from Greek. ('a-theos' literally means "without god" in ancient greek).
Secondly, your argument that atheism and agnosticism are one and the same is invalid. As you quite rightly say, to be an agnostic is to say that the existence of a deity is unknown or unknowable, but this only covers knowledge. An person could claim that God is unknown or unknowable but still believe it exists. Indeed I find that most rational theists will admit this. A supernatural force that has no explanation is by definition unknown, and so people who claim their God is supernatural are agnostics and theists. Now the gnostic theists will claim that "supernatural" is simply a mocking word used by atheists, and that God is perfectly natural and has been proven through some argument or through nature. In philosophy, knowledge is often described as a subset of belief, or as "true, justified belief". You can believe something and have no knowledge of it, but you cannot know something and have no belief of it, because this is a contradiction. Just to clarify, knowledge here is describing "absolute knowledge" rather than relative. You could argue that some people (like some creationists) "know" that fossils support evolution but simply do not believe it, but this is not the type of knowledge we are talking about. Knowledge in the agnosticism argument is all about the actual truth value of claims, not what people claim to know.
Well, you know Adrian ... it's another example of you thinking one thing and I another.
I think you're wrong, I don't think you have "bested" my argument so I guess we just leave it at that, eh? Kyu Angry Atheism
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Fine with me, but at least change the origin of the word "atheism" in your piece. Any good dictionary or encyclopedia will tell you the accurate origin is from ancient Greek.
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