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To: BMCDA
Ohhhh! I see, you just have to have faith. And if you have faith it's automatically true. Nice trick ;-D

Atheism requires an active belief system. Since no absolute evidence refutes God’s existence, one is required to reject (and reject and reject). A belief without absolute facts requires faith. Does your faith and belief make it true?

351 posted on 08/28/2002 5:08:16 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
Atheism requires an active belief system. Since no absolute evidence refutes God’s existence, one is required to reject (and reject and reject). A belief without absolute facts requires faith. Does your faith and belief make it true?

OK, let's see how logical that is:

A-unicornism requires an active belief system. Since no absolute evidence refutes unicorns' existence, one is required to reject (and reject and reject). A belief without absolute facts requires faith. Does your faith and belief make it true?

Nope. We're not required to try to prove a negative. OTOH, you have the positive belief, so you do require either positive proof (or at least good positive evidence), or else you're left with having to actively sustain your faith.

363 posted on 08/28/2002 6:22:56 PM PDT by jennyp
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To: Heartlander
No, it does not. There is no faith required in order to not believe a proposition for which I see no compelling evidence.

So if someone makes the positive claim that 'A' is true but the evidence that is supposed to support that claim doesn't convince you at all, what do you believe? Especially if there is no way to show that 'A' is necessarily false?
Should we believe every unfalsifiable proposition?

449 posted on 08/29/2002 12:10:55 AM PDT by BMCDA
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