Posted: Dec 26, 2011 8:11 pm
jaygray wrote:...and I guess you've all noticed that there is no clarification from Jireh at all about what his idea of what strong atheism is. That particular maneouvre allows his to place the goalposts where he likes.
I suspect he means the active assertion that there is no deity as opposed to simply saying there is currently no evidence but if genuine evidence were ever produced... Or, at least, that's what Wikipedia defines as Strong Atheism. I would say I am a strong atheist about particular religions, in fact, all religions that define a god because I don't think any of them stand up to reality. Whether there is such an entity in any way that has never been defined and doesn't fit any mythical beliefs? Well, that's the classic sucker bet. There is no way to know.
But as someone on another thread wrote just yesterday, some things seem obviously idiotic by defining too many details. Other things can have the illusion of being more likely when they really are not simply by providing no details.