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In reply to the discussion: Atheism: A Null Hypothesis on God [View all]MarkCharles
(2,261 posts)5. I sort of like this response, as a way of thinking about the topic.
If there was such an entity, one might think it´s so fundamental to this universe that science couldn´t possibly miss signs of it, and yet nothing. But still strictly we can´t know.
There is more than enough evidence to prove for a rational person and for the purposes of common sense rather than philosophical enquiry that religions and Gods of human beings are in fact manmade (geographical patterns of totally contradicting religious doctrines, absolute lack of magic and unicorns and signs from gods in real life, vanished gods of times past etc. etc .)
So I guess when I say I´m atheist I mean I´m an atheist concerning the fairy tales right here on home planet
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Again we seem to have limited the conversation to the concept of a personal God--
Thats my opinion
Jan 2012
#6
Well apart from the anarcho-syndicalist crap, fair questions - just irrelevant to mine.
dmallind
Jan 2012
#33
The notion of God as a super human, in a cloud with beard, is very hard to gets rid of.
Thats my opinion
Feb 2012
#41