<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:30 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 22/04/2020 01:12, Will Steinberg wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Atheism
is clearly an assertion. If it wasn't, then "God does not
exist"...</blockquote>
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Whoa.<br>
You're saying atheism asserts "god does not exist"?<br>
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You've heard the saying "Absence of evidence is not evidence of
absence", right?<br>
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Atheism is a lack of belief in gods, not a belief in the lack of
gods.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, agnosticism is a lack of belief in gods. Atheism is a belief in the lack of gods. </div></div></div>