To: IronKros
What a sloppy argument, typical of the atheist who doesn’t know why he or she doesn’t believe. It also is a slap in the face of the theist, so it’s a twofer.
I don’t believe that gods are invisible unicorns, or angry old men in the sky, or any other atheist tropes. I believe in a God who created the existing universe, and who has left evidence in creation - in the human mind and heart - of this fact. Of course, we could be merely conceited amoebas, and this evidence an emergent phenomena due to the complexity of our brains. But we don’t know. And that is why agnosticism is a better state than atheism if you are not convinced of the existence of God.
36 posted on
12/06/2009 2:29:41 PM PST by
GAB-1955
(I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
To: GAB-1955
If you believe that a god exists then you are not agnostic.
Then the distinction would be between theist and deist.
I am an atheist because I do not see the evidence to support the claim that there is a god. I make no assertions that is not a god, only that my belief is that there isn't one.
Now that being said, I am more than welcome to the concept. But even then I do not see how any of the major religions would have gotten it correct.
38 posted on
12/06/2009 6:03:45 PM PST by
IronKros
(Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ~Adam Smith, The Wealth)
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