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Musicmystery -> RE: Why do people think it's ok to strawman an atheist? (6/19/2010 7:50:19 AM)
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if someone could provide the slightest evidence, but none exists
In fairness, sure it exists--just not conclusively.
But short of "proof of," "evidence in support of" certainly exists, and people of faith can elaborate it for you, from the denial of coincidence at the low end to the intelligent design observation (before the creationists co-opted and mangled it) that stops short of claiming proof in favor of an opinion of "seems likely to me."
And sure, an atheist would say that's pretty slight evidence--but that slight evidence is there, just not the solid proof.
Now---as for this definition of atheist parsing...both of you are trying to describe actively a passive activity (yes, some become activists, but that's a subset, not criterion for the taxonomy). We don't have labels for people who don't believe in fairies, monsters, aliens, etc.; this is confusion only construed when some believers want to debate non-believers, so they first assign a claim to refute, when the truth is atheists are making no claim at all (i.e., not out to proof there is no god--again, not as a group, acknowledging a subset).
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