Posted: Jul 18, 2016 9:48 am
Keep It Real wrote:I'm not skilled at your style of discourse Thomas, so please be patient with me,
Of course.
Keep It Real wrote: but if everybody in the world was a christian and somebody said "there is no god" wouldn't that be an assertion?
Yes.
However atheism =/= 'there is no god'.
Keep It Real wrote:If somebody said "evolution is false" wouldn't that be an assertion? I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about so please enlighten me.
The innocent mistake you're making is to conflate atheism with the claim that a god or gods don't exist.
That's a form of atheism, often called strong atheism.
However atheism in general, and in it's basic form, is simple the lack of belief that a god exist.
Not the claim that they definitely don't.