The creator hypothesis only moves the mindless process further down the chain & is therefore redundant. Sorry to piss on your chips.
My chips are fine thank you. You’ll have to explain this statement…
Which God do you believe by the way? Some here think that leprechauns played a hand in our creation.
No particular God, I just believe we owe our existence to a Creator as opposed to the belief we owe our existence to natural causes that didn’t plan or intend our existence or the existence of the universe for that matter.
None. Unless you're going to go around telling other people they need to also hold that belief, then you have a burden of proof.
I agree, if I’m going to share my opinion in this forum I should justify such an opinion. However I’m not on the hook to prove it conclusively unless I state it’s a fact God exists and created the universe.
That is not what a burden of proof is. The burden of proof is the reasonable responsibility of someone claiming something to back up their their claims. The reason it's useful, is that any idiot can claim something, but we don't take anything seriously until the claim can be backed up with evidence.
Fair enough. If I opined that Joe Montana was the greatest QB ever, I would provide stats that back up that claim. That wouldn’t prove it to be true and it may not persuade you it is true but I would fulfil my burden to support an opinion.
Nope. There are no facts that point directly to a creator god.
Evidence is simply facts that comport with or make a belief more likely than not. In many cases circumstantial evidence is enough to convict someone with a higher burden of evidence, evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. It isn’t necessary to provide direct evidence. For instance I believe in the existence of black holes even though only indirect evidence has been established.
That's right, it's simply the lack of belief in a god or gods.
I wouldn’t speak for all atheists some atheists believe there is sufficient evidence to render the opinion God doesn’t exist. Some atheists feel exactly the same way but prefer to say they lack belief because they believe it relieves them of any burden of evidence.
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