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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
Sorry to follow this tangent, but I disagree. Any logical arguments for the non-existence of god can be matched by logical arguments for the existence of god, precisely because the definition of god is not a certainty. It may be that logic can be used to prove the non-existence of some specific interpretation of god, but equally, logic can be used to prove the existence of some other specific interpretation of god.
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That's true - logic can be used to prove anything. However, if I accept your premises as valid, and you use logical reasoning to reach a conclusion from those premises, that conclusion must be valid. Where people disagree is on the premises. So all we have to do is agree on a set of premises before we begin ;-)
However, there's still a definite difference between the two types of knowledge, and I just want people to be careful when they talk about atheism, as I feel it's more widely misunderstood than any religion.
Bingle