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Quote by: Isherwood  Yet there is a POV that maintains that the positive claim that there is a god is so unsupported as to be nonsensical. It doesn't make a positive claim that there are no gods, it says that no evidence has been presented to prove the claim that gods exist. This is my atheistic stance. I cannot claim something doesn't exist when that something hasn't even been shown to be anything more than the work of human imagination. |
Spot on.
Kame's arguments rely on each claim existing in a vacuum independent of every other claim or established knowledge. Absolutely NO ONE argues this way.
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Quote by: Kame Claims don't default to false in the absence of evidence. They start out as unknown. |
Incomplete.
We cannot make such a general statement. Only claims which are neutral (don't agree or disagree with anything we already know to be true) are "unknown".
"The Wright brothers used a Boeing 747 as a model for their powered glider" doesn't default to 'unknown'. It's false.