Atheism references no authority, you are making that up — DingoJones
Forever? Really? Forever? You want to assert in some sense that humans live forever and claim that lacking proof they don't, they do? That amounts to saying that in the present and immediate absence of proofs, whatever is asserted must be true. Is that your argument?living forever. Clue is in the words — Trinidad
Assuming I came to the debate not knowing whether to vote for Atheism or Theism and today is election day, who do I vote for based upon the respective positions submitted by our candidates? — Hanover
Atheism IS a lack of belief, and thats all it is. — DingoJones
Reason is not an authority, it is a tool one uses when one wants to make sense. — DingoJones
Ok, a tool if you prefer, and the atheist belief is that this tool can generate meaningful statements on the subject of gods.
In the same way, the theist believes that holy books, or perhaps their personal experience, are tools which can generate meaningful statements on the subject of god.
Competing claims. None of which can be proven. — Foghorn
The primary problem atheists typically have is that their faith in reason (for this particular task) is so deep, and so unexamined, that they don't realize it is faith. They take reason's qualifications for considering the very largest of questions, those most far removed from human scale, to be an obvious given. And so it doesn't occur to them to questions those qualifications. — Foghorn
The primary problem atheists typically have is that their faith in reason (for this particular task) is so deep, and so unexamined, that they don't realize it is faith. — Foghorn
The primary problem atheists typically have is that their faith in reason (for this particular task) is so deep, and so unexamined, that they don't realize it is faith. They take reason's qualifications for considering the very largest of questions, those most far removed from human scale, to be an obvious given. And so it doesn't occur to them to questions those qualifications. — Foghorn
This is why a moderator is necessary. To keep those two things from derailing the discussion like every other time. Without one we are into the same old shit as before. — DingoJones
Quite so, it is a conclusion based on evidence, and having been concluded, by most folks is set aside. — tim wood
180's opening shouldn't have been diverted by a weak opening by 3017, but should have just made out his case as if he had gone first. — Hanover
You cannot have evidence that God does not exist. — Kenosha Kid
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