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Originally Posted by GaryM
There's no evidence for the non-existence of anything, there couldn't be, so that isn't an argument in favour of the existence of god, or if it is then it equally supports anything that can be imagined. If someone believes in the existence of gods simply because they can't be disproved, then aren't they compelled by the same logic to believe in fairies, flying spaghetti monsters and Russell's Teapot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot)?
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I didn't say it was possible to provide evidence for something not existing, it's the atheists in this thread who keep claiming that science has proven religion
wrong, not me. Yes, science has provided explanations for things that were previously attributed to supernatural forces, but it has not proven the non-existence of god.
Your point about fairies, flying spaghetti monsters etc.-see my point about the tooth fairy. There are countless people who have had religious or spiritual experiences, the same cannot be said for the tooth fairy.
Dashingmajor, i never said at any point that anyone should worship anything. I said early on in this thread that i have the same opinions about organised religion as most atheists do, that it's a load of bollocks used to control people's thought and behaviour and keep them mindlessly conforming.
I just don't like seeing people lump together people who have their own ideas about god/spirituality/mysticism/the occult with people who think they'll go to heaven if they thoughtlessly follow some rules from some out of date, badly translated book. It's like saying that everyone with political beliefs is the same as the sheep who commit or allow atrocities in the name of communism or fascism.
Alex, I'm not grasping at any half-baked theory, these are my own ideas and my own thought patterns, not something i got from a book, let's see an example of you thinking for yourself. As far as i can see all you have is quotes and statistics to back yourself up.
Atheism is a personal choice, if that's the way you want to see the world, fine, if that's what makes you happy, but that's all it is, a choice to view the world in a particular way. It is not fact, it is not scientifically proven, it has not renderred other ways of looking at the world obsolete.