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A question for the atheists
This is a question for the atheists mainly. Even though the thrust of the issue is similar for theists.
When you tell someone that you're an atheist, I'd imagine that you often get asked how you can be sure that there's no god. It's the same question that people ask theists.... How can you prove it. Why not just accept agnosticism.
This is usually where theists invoke faith, but that doesn't seem to be an obvious move for atheists. As I think about it, maybe it's not so odd to say that one, "just has faith in the fact that there's no god." But I'd think that it's exactly theism's reliance on faith that pushes a lot of atheists toward their belief.
Once again, this is not a challenge of atheism. I just wanted to get a survey of ideas from active atheists. How do you answer this very common objection.
yours in science.
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Tbor
Madison, WI
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