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Originally Posted by llama64
I find it interesting that if I state that I prefer believing in God in the absence of contradicting proof, then that is ignorant and blind and something for the sheep.
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Why not believe in other Gods in the absence of contradicting proof? Why not believe in Zeus, there's no proof that Zeus doesn't exist.
You don't believe in God
because there is no proof one way or the other, you believe in God for far different reasons (upbringing, influences in your life, personal experiences, etc).
They're just saying that you can't say "There's no proof there isn't a God so there must be"; that doesn't make sense logically. There's no proof there's an invisible dragon in my garage either, but no sane person would believe me if I tried to convince them of it without some proof.
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Originally Posted by llama64
By latching on to scientific theories that most people are not trained enough to fully comphrehend and using them as "proof" of the validity of their beliefs, they lash out at any and all that dare to argue with them.
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You keep saying "beliefs", but it has nothing to do with belief. It's to do with what's proven. It is possible for something to be proven without having first hand experience of that proof. Or do you only ever trust a fact that you have personally proven??
So I take it that if your child had an infection then you wouldn't give them penicillin until you'd discovered it and done all the tests on it yourself?
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Put much more eloquently then I could ever have written, and exactly why I think athiests should stick to arguing their case against what is known, and not against the existence of God.
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Most atheists argue that there is no evidence for God, which is a very different thing than arguing against the existence of God. Most atheists would change their view if provided with evidence that there is a God.
EDIT: And most would also agree that religion and science are describing two different things. The original topic of this thread was about people ignoring science and sticking with their religious views that they think contradict science.