I believe there is no God.

[ragzy02]

Of course you can get all philosophical and metaphysical about meanings, but I like to use the numerical scale. For example, Dawkins stated in "The God Delusion" on page 73-74 that if on a 1 to 7 scale of belief ranging from 1 being a strong theist stating that God is 100 percent probable and 7 being a strong atheist stating, "I know there is no God", then he is a 6, but leaning towards a 7. He states that he is, "agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden." I believe that to make a brash statement such as, "I don't think, I know," is arrogance at it's fullest, and maybe that is why he doesn't choose a 7. I think I'd have to go with a 6.5 though for myself. Of course we cannot "disprove" Santa Claus, but I think we all have a pretty good indication that he doesn't exist, and when you actually learn Darwinian evolution, I think we can honestly tell ourselves that it would take quite the malevolent Creator to choose evolution by natural selection as His/Her means of creating the "prize" beings. And then you have the possibility that we are living in a computer simulation controlled by a future civilization.....who knows?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Knowledge implies belief (and truth) but belief does not imply knowledge.

Indeed; the hard atheist seems to me to be a making an unfounded truth claim.IE unsupported by evidence.

I guess, in a practical sense, it is a matter of semantics. I assert only that I do not believe. However,I live as if there are no gods,rejecting what I see as superstitions. That includes all religious beliefs.

[Captain Scarlet]

Which god/gods though?

I know the god of the bible doesn't exist. He is an incoherent being when set against his supposed attributes, that would make me a hard atheist with respect to Abrahmic religions and therefore a 7. Of the other gods, I have little understanding of them and therefore am 6.99999999999...on that scale of yours making me somewhat agnostic. As for the deist god which is really hard to define 6.99999999999...again for the same reason.

[ragzy02]

Which god/gods though?

I know the god of the bible doesn't exist. He is an incoherent being when set against his supposed attributes, that would make me a hard atheist with respect to Abrahmic religions and therefore a 7. Of the other gods, I have little understanding of them and therefore am 6.99999999999...on that scale of yours making me somewhat agnostic. As for the deist god which is really hard to define 6.99999999999...again for the same reason.

Yep, I agree. It's hard to pin down one "God" meaning. And if you are talking in an Einsteinian sense of "God", it gets even more difficult because after all, some people may worship gravity? If we wanna call gravity "God", then the picture changes drastically. My definition for "God"- the Intelligent, Omnipotent, Omniscient Creator of Everything in our natural universe. In this case of the word "God", I am a 6.5.