Why atheism is not the default position.

*UPDATE* Some of my videos are not allowing me reply to certain comments. If I reply to you via PM please do not take offense to this.

My video series explaining why atheism is not the lack of belief in a god -

Video 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xkfehPyydE
Video 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kkOG7had8I&watch_response
Video 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1imdDVb6nU&watch_response
Video 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvQ7jRVinSA&watch_response

A graph to show IQ vs. religiosity -
http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm

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[truckcompany]

lol this is rubbish. Atheists is a choice? Right, that's like you choosing to believe the sky is orange, lets see far that goes go...

[mungbeanman]

@truckcompany

"Atheists is a choice?"

Doesn't make sense grammatically.

"that's like you choosing to believe the sky is orange"

Demonstrate how.

[mungbeanman]

@goaliedude32

Anything else while we're here?

[goaliedude32]

@mungbeanman That's sufficient.

[mungbeanman]

@goaliedude32

"I don't see the difference."

Really? Oh, okay. Well one statement is an attempt to express a truth (and comes with a burden of proof) while the other expresses an attitude toward a proposition. I can't put it more clearly than that.

[goaliedude32]

@mungbeanman The only thing i'm going to respond to is "Saying there IS no god is different from saying that you believe there is no god."

I don't see the difference.

[mungbeanman]

@goaliedude32

"there's no good reason to believe that to be true."

Then you identify yourself as belonging to the excluded middle. Typically this is how the agnostics would describe themselves but there is some dispute regarding what this position is which I am not prepared to involve myself in.

"I personally take the default position which I had thought matched the definition of atheists."

Which is why I ask if you were an atheist one million years ago.

[mungbeanman]

@goaliedude32

"The problem lies in teh definition of the word."

No it doesn't, the problem lies with what atheism is and what it is not. What is atheism? and what does the word atheism mean? are two entirely different questions.

"80% of the definitions i've seen/heard for atheism are simply the lack of belief in god."

Might I recommend a dictionary?

"I will never say "there is no god""

Saying there IS no god is different from saying that you believe there is no god.

[goaliedude32]

@mungbeanman I personally take the default position which I had thought matched the definition of atheists. If you're telling me I'm wrong there's not much i can do about that but say oops.