In several forms and ways, I’ve been told that using agnostic instead of atheist because “you can’t be absolutely certain of anything” is wrong because its overly pedantic. Your comment is pedantic in exactly the same way: of course whpearson means that he has no evidence for or against either hypothesis that he understands. When an athiest claims that there is no evidence that Gods exists, he means there is no evidence that he understands. I.e., ‘to the extent of his knowledge’. I think what you’re really trying to say is that you think there is evidence that there is no God? Why not say this outright? I think this is one of the ways people try to avoid getting in a confrontation about specific facts. Maybe you’re just not interested in discussing this because you’ve ‘seen it all before’. So you’d like to assert your point of view from some philosophically safe position without actually engaging in an argument about the real issue: is there evidence for the non-existence of God?
In several forms and ways, I’ve been told that using agnostic instead of atheist because “you can’t be absolutely certain of anything” is wrong because its overly pedantic. Your comment is pedantic in exactly the same way: of course whpearson means that he has no evidence for or against either hypothesis that he understands. When an athiest claims that there is no evidence that Gods exists, he means there is no evidence that he understands. I.e., ‘to the extent of his knowledge’. I think what you’re really trying to say is that you think there is evidence that there is no God? Why not say this outright? I think this is one of the ways people try to avoid getting in a confrontation about specific facts. Maybe you’re just not interested in discussing this because you’ve ‘seen it all before’. So you’d like to assert your point of view from some philosophically safe position without actually engaging in an argument about the real issue: is there evidence for the non-existence of God?