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Infinite_Loser · 03-14-2008, 08:30 PM

Will, that's nice and all, but that really wasn't the point I was trying to make.

Excluding agnosticism, atheism is characterized by an absence of belief in the existence of gods. Now, I realize that a disbelief in God is not the same thing as the belief that there is no God, therefore I'm not concerned with the first position, as it poses no problems. It's the second position which provides a whole host of nasty logical problems. It's not uncommon to see an atheist use the argument "How do you know your God exists? God could be anything!" Well, if God could be anything, then to simultaneously make the statement that God doesn't exist, would be to make a contradiction (Something can't be anything yet not exist). That's why the statement, as I see it, is logically incoherent and precludes one from being an atheist, but rather an agnostic.

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Infinite_Loser Junkie Location: Lake Mary, FL	Will, that's nice and all, but that really wasn't the point I was trying to make. Excluding agnosticism, atheism is characterized by an absence of belief in the existence of gods. Now, I realize that a disbelief in God is not the same thing as the belief that there is no God, therefore I'm not concerned with the first position, as it poses no problems. It's the second position which provides a whole host of nasty logical problems. It's not uncommon to see an atheist use the argument "How do you know your God exists? God could be anything!" Well, if God could be anything, then to simultaneously make the statement that God doesn't exist, would be to make a contradiction (Something can't be anything yet not exist). That's why the statement, as I see it, is logically incoherent and precludes one from being an atheist, but rather an agnostic. __________________ I believe in equality; Everyone is equally inferior to me. Last edited by Infinite_Loser; 03-14-2008 at 08:37 PM..