Part 10 Atheism VS Theism - Where does the evidence point?

Fine Debate between two able speakers on the existence of God

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[jarroddudley]

I can't take a religious person seriously... They just make me laugh

[rsxfreak03]

I should of said this a few videos ago in this series but the christian guy mentioned it again in this video. He said that nothing can pop into existence. Sub atomic particles, we have found, in fact DO pop in and out of existence. So once again his claim of "the obvoius" is wrong.

[littlebit19801]

Theya re debating as though Christianity is the ONLY religion and God is the only God, what about all the other religions?

[haksjo]

@jarroddudley I can´t take you seriously. You make me laugh. Ergo, every thing you belive is wrong. This makes sens, don´t it?

[burkerow]

@bestinfadel Finally....This last statement, we suspect, reflects Dawkins' true beliefs: that one cannot rigorously disprove or prove the existence of Deism's absent creator God, the Jewish Yahweh, the Christian Trinity or Islam's Allah or Russell's teapot, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thus one must remain Agnostic unless and until some proof is found. But that does not preclude an individual from having an opinion on the likelihood of any of these seven entities.

ref--religioustolerance.

[burkerow]

@bestinfadel From the same web page....in Dawkins's 2006 program "The Root of All Evil?," he says:

Science can't disprove the existence of God. But that does not mean that God exists. There are a million things we can't disprove. Maybe we have to be technically and strictly agnostic, but in practice we are all teapot atheists. (of course in reference to Russell's teapot)

[burkerow]

@bestinfadel Melanie Phillips wrote a column for The Spectator -- a UK magazine -- suggesting that Dawkins' beliefs are "still evolving" towards Deism. She quotes a debate between Dawkins and John Lennox at Oxford University in which Dawkins said: "A serious case could be made for a deistic God."

Phillips speculates that Dawkins still regards belief in the God of the Bible is equivalent to "... believing in fairies at the bottom of the garden."

Reference- religioustolerance. org

[burkerow]

@bestinfadel "dawkins actually has stated on many occasions that its there is no god and there is no possibility of any god or gods"

I'm sorry, with all due respect, I'm still going to have to disagree with you on this statement. I have seen the Ben Stein interview, or at least part of it, but you must understand it's been heavily edited for Stein's movie. Be that as it may, Dawkins has made comments to the contrary and you made me look for them.

See the next post.

[burkerow]

@bestinfadel Are you aware of the analogy of Bertrand Russell's celestial teapot?

The philosopher, Bertrand Russell, had an analogy. Imagine there's a china teapot in orbit around the sun. You cannot disprove the existence of the teapot, because it's too small to be spotted by our telescopes. Nobody but a lunatic would say, 'Well, I'm prepared to believe in the teapot because I can't disprove it.'

Here the burden of proof of the teapot rest with the one making the claim for it's existence.

[burkerow]

@bestinfadel "i think you are missing the point , my argument is how can anyone prove there is or isnt a god ,its just impossible"

No, I got your point here. No serious atheist, if he's a smart one anyway, would ever try to "prove" there isn't a god. We just think there's not enough evidence to believe there is one, in much the same way most sane people don't believe in the gods of the ancient Greeks.

In the same way I don't believe in aliens. Where's the evidence?