Quote:
Originally Posted by helterskelter808
Not believing in God (depending on how you're defining it) is a belief.
|
Not if you're an atheist.
I'm defining God in the human religious sense, whatever name they give him based on their religion. That being does not exist, therefor there is nothing to not believe in, just as you don't form an option on Spider Man as he doesn't exist either, yet you can't prove it.
Believing in "god" in other ways could be a belief, such as you believe you are your own god, or god was the big bang, or however you want to define it. But in the biblical sense, it is a story, nothing to not believe it. Believing the biblical story is what borders on a serious mental disorder.
Quote:
Originally Posted by rogueteens
My point is that unless you can prove that something doesn't exist then you do not know that it doesn't.
|
As helterskelter808 said, you don't sound like an atheist, as they do not believe at all. By simply saying god may exist because you can't prove it, says you are not an atheist. Agnostic is what you are. Then there is nothing to debate, as agnostics view it all as unknown.
Quote:
Originally Posted by rogueteens
The big bang theory is a good example, scientists are in the main agreed that this is what happened at the start of the universe but they cannot prove it so it remains just that a theory.
|
Science is not faith or a lack of. It is science. That is their theory of how the universe was created, they may be right or wrong, but we do know for FACT that the universe was created at one time and that all particles within it are moving outward. This much is known as fact, so they base their theory on this.