Atheists & Agnostics

Kablooie

(18,792 posts) Sat Dec 29, 2018, 02:52 PM Dec 2018

Definition of Athiesm. [View all]

It seems to me that Athiesm is simply an unwillingness to believe in extraordinary and fantastic claims without scientific proof.

Quantum mechanics has extraordinary and fantastic claims but it also offers scientific proof for those claims so we are open to believing it.

No one has offered scientific proof of an old man with the white beard sitting on a cloud ruling the universe so atheists will not believe it. If,in some hypothetical world, this could be proven to be true scientifically, an atheist also would be open to believing it.

So atheistic belief is not simply a disbelief in God. It's a disbelief in extraordinary and fantastic claims that Have no scientific proof.

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Definition of Athiesm. [View all] Kablooie Dec 2018 OP

I have a hard time believing that even if there is a God like that demigoddess Dec 2018 #1

It's not just scientific proof... LakeArenal Dec 2018 #2

Rejection of gods is not the same as disbelief. Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #3

There's no divinity. Therefore no evil or good. LakeArenal Dec 2018 #4

Actually we could define evils and good in a humanistic way that Farmer-Rick Jan 2019 #9

Well, first we have to define evidence Lordquinton Dec 2018 #5

You are the one claiming there are supernatural beings controlling our lives, you must prove it Farmer-Rick Jan 2019 #10

Not quite right there Lordquinton Jan 2019 #12

oh sorry, but it came off so much like a true god believer. Farmer-Rick Jan 2019 #13

I figured it was a misunderstanding Lordquinton Jan 2019 #14

Atheism is simply a lack of an affirmative belief in a deity LongtimeAZDem Dec 2018 #6

It's the absence of belief. Iggo Jan 2019 #8

I really doubt most psychopaths believe in gods Farmer-Rick Jan 2019 #11

I think it's much more simple and there's a lot of breathing room defacto7 Dec 2018 #7