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Atheists & Agnostics

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Kablooie

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Sat Dec 29, 2018, 03:52 PM Dec 2018

Definition of Athiesm. [View all]

It seems to me that Athiesm is simply an unwillingness to believe in extraordinary and fantastic claims without scientific proof.

Quantum mechanics has extraordinary and fantastic claims but it also offers scientific proof for those claims so we are open to believing it.

No one has offered scientific proof of an old man with the white beard sitting on a cloud ruling the universe so atheists will not believe it. If,in some hypothetical world, this could be proven to be true scientifically, an atheist also would be open to believing it.

So atheistic belief is not simply a disbelief in God. It's a disbelief in extraordinary and fantastic claims that Have no scientific proof.

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