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Originally Posted by rickanderson
agreed, atheists do it all the time.
sad really.
regards
rick
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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.