Negative atheism? (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Friday, December 19, 2014, 14:38 (3416 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

BM claims "An Atheist, however, has to disprove the existence of God AND prove that everything had to be possible WITHOUT God." -This is not so. -To call myself an atheist I only have to prove to my own satisfaction that the concepts of gods espoused by various religions are unhelpful, in the same way that beliefs in magic, karma, transubstantiation, afterlife, etc, etc, are just fantasies that I could waste years of my life trying to de-obfuscate.-It is also time that the other tired old argument that "nothing can come from nothing" was retired. Whole books have been written on the physical, metaphysical and philosophical question of "nothing" that clearly show the concept of something from nothing is perfectly respectable. I've argued this here previously but the mantra is still repeated.-The whole idea of theists beginning by accepting on faith the concept of their God and then trying to fit the facts to their preconception is a fundamentally flawed procedure.

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GPJ