On 01/05/2024 12:33, Manar Hussain via Silklist wrote:
About the existence of a God. I'm an atheist.What would count as "sufficient evidence" for you in this context?
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I suppose if I define God as an agent with the power to perform magic, then I could be convinced of His (or Her or Their) existence, but that might fall well short of a desire to offer worship.What convinces you to be an atheist as opposed to agnostic?
Well, if I may butt in...As a dedicated fence-sitter and avoider of strong beliefs about anything, I am indeed agnostic: sure, there could be some kind of god out there, nobody can prove otherwise.
However, in practice, that is effectively an atheistic position; it's basically saying that there's no evidence of a god existing in any way that might affect me (otherwise, that effect would be evidence), so if there is a god they're (currently / so far) irrelevant to my life, so I'm living as if there's no god.
In practice, I think the difference between an agnostic person (...agnostist?) and an atheist is zero, until a god (or indirect evidence thereof) turns up, at which point the agnostic goes "Huh, interesting, OK" and the atheist goes "Noooooo!".
-- Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT) http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
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