But we don't know for sure that there isn't a creator of some description. So to call yourself an atheist and declare that no Gods exist, even though you cannot explain how existence came into being, seems to me to require a leap of faith. No one has the answer to how the universe came into being, what's beyond it, what came before it etc. so how can you be so sure it didn't involve some kind of creator? That's where atheists take a leap of faith, coz they are saying 'whatever caused the universe to come into being it definitely didn't involve a creator." I don't see how an atheist can be so sure, and I do regard myself as an atheist, but I wobble a bit at that point.
"But we don't know for sure that there isn't a creator of some description. So to call yourself an atheist and declare that no Gods exist, even though you cannot explain how existence came into being, seems to me to require a leap of faith."
It requires a leap of faith in the same way that believing there is no tooth fairy requires a leap of faith. I can not prove there is no tooth fairy, but I have no doubt the tooth fairy does not exist. There is no way that you can prove definitively that there is no tooth fairy, Santa Clause, Easter Bunny, or God.
I can say that there are invisible, undetectable aliens in your living room right now. There is no way that you could prove it is not true. If you want to call that faith, go ahead. I wouldn't use that word.
Come and let us discuss atheism.
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But we don't know for sure that there isn't a creator of some description. So to call yourself an atheist and declare that no Gods exist, even though you cannot explain how existence came into being, seems to me to require a leap of faith. No one has the answer to how the universe came into being, what's beyond it, what came before it etc. so how can you be so sure it didn't involve some kind of creator? That's where atheists take a leap of faith, coz they are saying 'whatever caused the universe to come into being it definitely didn't involve a creator." I don't see how an atheist can be so sure, and I do regard myself as an atheist, but I wobble a bit at that point.
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"But we don't know for sure that there isn't a creator of some description. So to call yourself an atheist and declare that no Gods exist, even though you cannot explain how existence came into being, seems to me to require a leap of faith."
It requires a leap of faith in the same way that believing there is no tooth fairy requires a leap of faith. I can not prove there is no tooth fairy, but I have no doubt the tooth fairy does not exist. There is no way that you can prove definitively that there is no tooth fairy, Santa Clause, Easter Bunny, or God.
I can say that there are invisible, undetectable aliens in your living room right now. There is no way that you could prove it is not true. If you want to call that faith, go ahead. I wouldn't use that word.