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Re: Atheism is a belief, it's not a science.

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On 2024-04-29 17:36:12 +0000, Malte Runz said:

> On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:38:00 -0700, The Starmaker
> <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>> The Starmaker wrote:
>>> 
>>> Atheism is a belief, it's not a science.
>> 
>> Religious beliefs and Atheism beliefs are both on the same level of ...beliefs.
> 
> Nope. Atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of a god.
>> 
>> 
>> Atheist are confident that there is no God, ...
> 
> That's a strawman. Not believing in the existence of a god is not the
> same as a belief in the non-existence of a god.

Yes. Not believing in God is no more a belief than not collecting 
stamps is a hobby (Richard Dawkins's example).
> 
>> ... as Religions are confident that there is a God.
> 
> 
> "Religions" are not confident that there is a god. The followers are.
> Anyway...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> They are are both on the same level of ...beliefs.
> 
> Without claiming knowledge, I would say that I believe there are no
> gods. But the difference between my belief and the theist's belief is
> that I can be proven wrong, whereas the theist can't. And that is the
> fundamental difference between the two kinds of belief.


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athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots

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