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To: Dataman
The burden of proof is on the new idea or the more elaborate explanation. Atheism is the new idea and certainly the more elaborate explanation.

Atheism has been around longer than Christianity. Furthermore, how is the idea that something does not exist more elaborate than the idea that something does exist? If anything, Atheism does not propose or attempt to explain anything.

155 posted on 03/26/2004 1:26:16 PM PST by Modernman (Chthulhu for President! Why Vote for the Lesser Evil?)
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To: Modernman
Atheism has been around longer than Christianity.

Your assertion is absurd, baseless and without proof. Do you think Christianity originated in 33 AD?

how is the idea that something does not exist more elaborate than the idea that something does exist?

Because the profession that something does not exist removes the explanation that explains everything that does exist.
If anything, Atheism does not propose or attempt to explain anything.

Atheism is a world view and a world view is a system of interpreting reality.
Do you really think that there are no logical implications in believing that everything happened by accident?
176 posted on 03/26/2004 1:44:23 PM PST by Dataman
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