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Old 03-29-2008, 11:53 PM
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Default Re: Why and where is God ?

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Originally Posted by rickanderson View Post
agreed, atheists do it all the time.

sad really.

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rick
Not quite correct.

Atheism is not, as you and many others would claim, a belief. Rather, it is logical fallacy, argumentum ad ignorantiam, an argument from ignorance. It is the taking of the absence of proof to be the proof of absence.

Here, the 2 relevant fallacious arguments are:

1) "There is no proof of God's existence, therefore God does not exist"
2) "There is no proof of God's non-existence, therefore God does exist"

The logically correct position is that of agnosticism, which is to say that ones does not know, and therefore draws no conclusion.
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