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Old 02-14-2013, 05:15 PM   #43
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Default Re: Atheism/Theism thread

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I wouldn't care if the universe were created or not anyways. It shouldn't influence how I live my life should it?
Whether you care about any of this or not is a separate question from whether or not X is true/false.

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This simply stated that there are no absolute truths, correct? I guess knowing this, I will forever be agnostic then.
The simple point: If something has no physical evidence, it's indistinguishable from that thing not existing.

This applies to infinitely many things. We can't disprove Thor, we can't disprove Zeus, we can't disprove Yahweh, we can't disprove the Flying Spaghetti Monster, we can't disprove the Parallel Dimension of Blue Hedgehogs, etc. There are many things we don't believe it because we have no reason to believe in them until shown otherwise.

Most atheists are technically agnostic atheists -- "We don't believe in Gods, but we don't know for certain." Atheists don't know for a fact that there is no God, but they also don't know for a fact that we all aren't just brains in jars undergoing an Experience Engine Matrix, either. Again, though, until some reason presents itself, why give any one arbitrary evidence-less idea credence over another?
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