Atheists of SW: How certain are you that no higher power exists?
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robertsnj · 56-60, M
atheist here--it not so much how that works. for the most part most atheist, self included, have a follow-the-evidence model when it comes to the God question.
most of us (again self incuded) base our ideas of reality on physically tangable / empirically verifiable evidence.
if evidence were to be produced of a higher power most of us would be open to it if it were phyically tangable and empirically verifiable in nature.
Where believers base their conclusion on faith (conviction held in the absense of evidence) atheist do the opposite, base theri conclusion on the evidence on hand (of which there is none.
In that way the idea how one uses the word certain, faith vs evidence is sorta a flat head screwdriver vs a philips screwdriver. Different process to reach different result.
From an epistemological vantage point, as rapidly move into an increasly more data driven society, of which there is no God that has any supporting data for his / her existence I, as an atheist find believers position of (usually absolute) certainly with no evidence as fascinating as yall probably find us atheists.
100 years ago i may have been a believer, not because evidence existed 100 years ago, but because we knew so little about physical anthropolgy and how the world of life-sciences worked.
most of us (again self incuded) base our ideas of reality on physically tangable / empirically verifiable evidence.
if evidence were to be produced of a higher power most of us would be open to it if it were phyically tangable and empirically verifiable in nature.
Where believers base their conclusion on faith (conviction held in the absense of evidence) atheist do the opposite, base theri conclusion on the evidence on hand (of which there is none.
In that way the idea how one uses the word certain, faith vs evidence is sorta a flat head screwdriver vs a philips screwdriver. Different process to reach different result.
From an epistemological vantage point, as rapidly move into an increasly more data driven society, of which there is no God that has any supporting data for his / her existence I, as an atheist find believers position of (usually absolute) certainly with no evidence as fascinating as yall probably find us atheists.
100 years ago i may have been a believer, not because evidence existed 100 years ago, but because we knew so little about physical anthropolgy and how the world of life-sciences worked.