Can you explain the 'atheist' belief concerning the nature of the universe? What about the fundamental set of beliefs and practices of atheism? How does show 'devotion' to atheism? You're grasping at straws.
Faith in what?
If claiming that disbelief is in fact a belief then one could claim that no taste is in fact a taste of its own. So, does water have a taste?
what is pure water? yes, it does have a taste. minerals.
Incorrect. In each of those things you are speaking about a SPECIFIC thing...Santa Claus, Toothfairies, etc. Specific individual things can be directly proven. For example, with a toothfairy we can note that there's never been a case of a tooth legitimately vanishing from under a pillow and having money. We can trace back likely specifically to the original creations of it as a fake thing, etc.
However, a belief that "supernatural beings do not exist" as a broad thing would be a belief. There ARE supernatural instances and issues that haven't been fully explained away or unquestionably proven false, however having faith that they're all explainable due to natural law is still a belief. Its you believing something despite there being no concrete definitive answers.
Yes it does, its the belief that there is no possible way anything can exist outside of natural laws. Its the belief that the universe is completely lawful, without any elements of chaos that potentially can act outside of natural law and thus are supernatural. It is the belief that even though there are NUMEROUS things we have absolutely no way to distinctly prove beyond a reasonable doubt that those things are still natural and follow natural laws and can be explained through science even if we're not able to yet.
Arguing Athiesm isn't a religion is one thing, and I'd agree there. But it most certainly IS belief of faith. It is NOT the absence of belief. The closest to that is an agnostic. Athiests fully believe that a diety or the supernatural simply is impossible and untrue. That is a belief. Agnostics don't believe that there is or isn't something supernatural, they just think its unknowable so don't bother themselves with it either way. THAT is the closest to an absense of belief, not athiesm. Placing ones firm ground in a particular unknown is faith.
Absolutely. Atheism is the lack of belief in god(s), nothing more. It says nothing about the nature of the universe or anything else and there certainly are no practices of atheism. It's not just grasping at straws, it's a distinct lack of understanding of what atheism is.
See, I think the funny thing here is that the athiests, especially the militant types, have so insulted, derided, and chastised the notion of "belief" that its gotten to the point that they can't dare allow themselves to be considered a belief even though they are because then that would apply their insults to themselves. They've attempted to contort and twist a word so much in the process of their non-stop evangelizing of the horrors and evils and idiocy and bigotry and lunacy and vileness of that horrible notion of "religion" and "belief" that they didn't stop to think that "belief" is a rather wide ranging word.
Why do atheists make such a big deal out of religion? Why dont' they just ignore it?
Why do atheists make such a big deal out of religion? Why dont' they just ignore it?
Faith that God does not exist. It requires faith to deny that God exists without any proof.
Ok, so do you feel that valid knowledge can come from non-rational sources?
But agnosticism and atheism are not mutually exclusive, there are agnostic atheists, and there are gnostic atheists.
Why disprove something unproveable?
I'm sorry, you have to prove the purple dragon exists. We don't have to prove that it doesn't.
Faith that God does not exist. It requires faith to deny that God exists without any proof.
God is provable through science. Science demands a creator and evident through our scientific laws. We can't physically put God in a test tube, but we know He exists.
God is provable through science. We can't physically put God in a test tube, but we know He exists.
Faith that God does not exist? I do not take "God's" existence into consideration when exploring the world around me. Example, I see a rabbit and I 'believe' God didn't create it. I know that rabbit is the offspring of two other rabbits. So I know 'God' didn't create it. You on the other hand see a rabbit and regardless of all the evidence showing you that rabbits are a mamalian species which procreate, you think that the rabbit was created by a god. So exatcly what purpose does saying that I have 'faith' in the non-existence of something when I know, due to evidence, that it doesn't exist? Do I also have faith in the non-existence of other things? Do you have 'faith' in the non-existence of furry beasts under your bed?
If God was provable through science then God could actually be physically put in a test tube.
God is provable through science. Science demands a creator and evident through our scientific laws. We can't physically put God in a test tube, but we know He exists.
If God was provable through science then God could actually be physically put in a test tube.
Oh? What other correct ways are there to view the world?
God is provable through science. Science demands a creator and evident through our scientific laws. We can't physically put God in a test tube, but we know He exists.
I see evidence of evolution. That it happens is indisputable.
The big bang theory... meh.
I lack belief in any god or goddess. They may well exist, but until they have given me a reason to believe, I will continue to lack belief.
Cite evidence.
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