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Originally Posted by MarchHare
This seems to come up in almost every single religion thread, but atheism does not say there is no god. It states that in the absence of empiracal evidence supporting the existance of a god, it is completely illogical to believe that one exists. No atheist I know would ever state with 100% certainty that there absolutely positively is no god. Not even Richard Dawkins would make that claim.
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Well, its basically semantics, but we can agree what I was discussing could not be labelled as atheism, as Claeren suggested.
There is quite the divide though between agnosticism and atheism, filled in with many subsects from the "there is most definitely a God, but none of the religions are close enough," to "there is almost certainly no God."
I would contend that some Atheists have definitely said "there is no God", though certainly not posterchildren or academics like Dawkins. Since, even in Science, something like gravity is only a theory, and not a certainty, its not rational to deal in absolutes. But hey, who said faith or anti-faith as it were, was rational?