[ExI] No gods, no meaning?

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 03:00, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:30 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 22/04/2020 01:12, Will Steinberg wrote:
>>
>> Atheism is clearly an assertion.  If it wasn't, then "God does not
>> exist"...
>>
>>
>> Whoa.
>> You're saying atheism asserts "god does not exist"?
>>
>> You've heard the saying "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence",
>> right?
>>
>> Atheism is a lack of belief in gods, not a belief in the lack of gods.
>>
>
> No, agnosticism is a lack of belief in gods.  Atheism is a belief in the
> lack of gods.
>

Atheists and agnostics may assign different probabilities to the existence
of God. Theists, on the other had, have a fundamentally different way of
thinking: they believe with certainty despite the absence of supporting
evidence.


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Stathis Papaioannou
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