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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I've mentioned this in previous religion/atheism threads, but I don't know of a single atheist who ever states with 100% certainty that there isn't a god or gods. Not even Richard Dawkins makes that claim. Most atheists will point to the complete and total lack of evidence of a god's existance, and therefore choose to lead there lives, quite logically, as if there is no god. Should there suddenly appear indisputable evidence that a god exists, the vast majority of atheists would quickly change their viewpoint in light of that new information.
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Dawkins statement that the probability of a god is very slim is not backed up by his argument at the very end of his logic when the gets down to the Big Bang and multi versus and 747 theory he just says science will find a solution to explain it without the existance of God. It was a very unsatisfying answer. He is willing to accept that there is a multiverse with an infinant number of Big Bang events that occur enough times so that in one of the universes humans evlove enough to question whether or not God exists but is not willing to except that a being capable of creating a single Big Bang event with the right paramters exits. Both solutions suffer from the 747 problem yet he entirely discredits one because it doesn't suit his world view.
I fundementally agree with what Dawkins says in "The God Effect" except that I believe in the exsistance of God. The indoctornation of youth and the abuse of religeuos power is definately something that needs to be looked at.