Obviously yes, but I would still use evidence (and the lack of it) to refute it and to give my opinion weight.
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Obviously yes, but I would still use evidence (and the lack of it) to refute it and to give my opinion weight.
Ok, if I present the idea of the Powerpuff Girls being real, and you say it isnt, is your rejection based on faith?
I have to disagree. Faith is not present if you believe in NOTHING, you have to believe in SOMETHING for your belief to be based on faith.
Well, the Douglas Adams school of thought does
But that isn't faith, if it were you wouldn't need evidence.
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Dude, the fact is that there are an infinite amount of galaxies in the universe and thus an infinite number of permutations of everything. C'mon man...
That's weak atheism then, rather than strong atheism.
Ok let me rephrase the question.
If I present the idea of the Powerpuff Girls being real ON EARTH, and you say it isnt, is your rejection based on faith?
Atheism is Atheism, I dont think it has different forms. Its simply a complete lack of belief in gods or deities.
But a belief in nothing is something, for it is the belief that 'there is nothing'.
There isn't anywhere further for this conversation to go.
I give up on these god threads,they just turn out into a one person blog
They are incredibly boring, so yes, I'm out.
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I don't really know tbh. That's not my point though, I'm referring to the universe and thus anything is possible. You know this dude.
Nope, I don't believe in any form of deity, I just don't rule out the possibility that one may exist.
How can it be an insult if they know what being an atheist means?
Both those lines completely contradictory to one another.
Its an incorrect definition.
Strong atheism actively asserts that there is no God. Weak atheism makes no such assertions but nevertheless does not believe that God exists.
Wrong. Absence of faith is agnosticism. Atheism is the active disbelief of god or gods. That is faith based.
Not if you actually understand logic.
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Atheism is absolutely a faith.
The term "lack of faith" is nothing but a turn of phrase.
The term "lack of faith" is nothing but a turn of phrase.
If you believe in the possibility of something existing, then you cannot claim that it absolutely doesnt exist.
Wrong twice in two sentences. Atheism most certainly has different forms and it is characterised by a disbelief in God or gods, not a lack of belief in them. You really need to learn what you're talking about before you rabidly pursue your own points in circles.
The Power puff girls are real, by the definition of what the power puff girls are, and that is an animated tv series created by Craig McCracken they are real and can this can be proven scientifically by simply producing the creator, the film and the animation itself.
If the definition is that the Power Puff Girls are living breathing people then again this can be disproved scientifically in the same way, by producing the animation, the creator and film to illustrate the reality of the proposition.
Unfortunately God is not falsifiable and unlike the power puff girls doesn't have a unified universal definition, so to make any scientific judgement of the existence or non existence of God is futile.
Science is entirely agnostic on the subject.
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