Golden Earring wrote: > Hi Stephen! > > My OED defines atheism as the theory or belief that God does not exist: > an atheist is a person who proposes such a theory or holds that belief. > Since the matter cannot be proven by any rational means, I consider it > to be as extreme a position as that of a person who asserts or believes > that God does exist, which is equally unprovable rationally. > > With this apparently incorrect interpretation, I hold a genuine agnostic > position that I do not know whether any kind of God or Creator of any > kind exists, which falls between the two extremes although it doesn't > really lead anywhere. > > Where is my factual error in this, I must have blinkers on tonight? > > Dave :)
Atheism is not a theory, it is simply a lack of belief. Pity you forgot the dictionary reference when you posted your first comment regarding atheism. > I am not an atheist (which is a logically indefensible position, since > you can't know that a God of some kind or another does not exist), but I > am strongly agnostic so have long ago stopped bothering with why things > are the way they are. Where does the O.E.D state that atheism is logically indefensible? >From Wikipedia, "Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities." > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism ------------------------------------------------------------------------ StephenPG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48249 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
