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It didn't "come" from anywhere, it existed at time=0. Came from science? Einstein said a lot of things: So?

Perhaps our best bet when asked whether you believe in god would be to respond "what god?" since I think we both agree there are some conceptions of God which are truly beyond our ability to have a worthwhile argument against and there are others which we can satisfactorily say we don't think...

Where are the atheists that believe "the universe made its self" ? It's a straw man.

Ok I hadn't actually considered the prospect of say a deistic god, which I would accept agnosticism as a reasonable position in response. Would you accept that atheism is the more consistent/reasonable position to take in regard to a personal god i.e. The abrahamic god of the...

People rarely talk to language of sceptical philosophy in their everyday dealings, it's offputting and muddies the waters... or maybe they really do believe they have absolute knowledge, but I doubt it *shrug*

I know what he's saying, I agree with him and hold the exact same position. My point is that I still think he's as much an atheist as anyone else who claims to be an atheist. I don't believe there are people (or at least, very many) who claim to have absolute knowledge which is what it is...

To me it's like saying you're agnostic about love pixies... are you going to do that? I know from bringing this up with you in the past you've said you would say you're agnostic about all such things but I just feel it doesn't tell us anything to say you're agnostic. I'm agnostic ultimately of...

Prove that it points to a deity? As an argument it's incredibly weak. It's like if I said "people die, this points to no god". We have a great many naturalistic explanations for the existence of our universe as it is, but even if we didn't that doesn't make assertion that a god must have done it...

I don't think they really believe it anyway so I couldn't think they have a mental deficiency for believing. If they somehow really do then their only deficiency is that they're wrong, I've made many mistakes so it's no biggie.

The thing is (my sneaking suspiscion) that she doesn't really believe with the resolve she claims here. Hows bout you step up to the plate and present your arguments then? You can't, your occasional trip to this thread to take a little jibe without ever actually presenting your own thoughts or...

I dealt with your arguments. I find your pseudo-science pathetic. Nope. I understood it and I disagreed. Explain to me why the absense of empirical evidence for a cancer-causing agent shouldn't be taken as evidence that there is no cancer-causing agent? Obviously we'll never know for certain...

The first part of that sentence appears to be meaningless rhetoric, the second half I'm guessing is about things in your life that your attribute to god... The question would be why do you attribute them to god?

But then what are you basing your faith on? It's always a bad idea to just trust your intuitions. Humans can make up fantasies, humans get their 'hunches' etc wrong, that's why in science it has self-correcting mechanisms.

*TRUE* if I work for a drug company and I've got to make sure there's no cancer-causing agents in this new drug we're releasing, I do thousands upon thousands of empirical tests on my small sample, have this independently checked etc and there appears to be absolutely no trace of cancer-causing...

And because you see no evidence of them you say they do not exist. I say the exact same thing about god. So if you consider yourself a non-believer in the tooth fairy, you should equally consider me a non-believer in God - An atheist.

What would you say DOESN'T exist *TRUE*? Do leprechauns NOT exist? Does the tooth fairy NOT exist? Do little fairies that fire arrows into people's bums to make them fall in love NOT exist?

I get the feeling you don't want to accept that we might be atheists because you've been accustomed to 'hating' atheists so much, you don't like that we might be atheists while still being intelligent, kind, well-mannered and decent people. I am definitely an atheist, I do not believe in god...

If you define religion as "a belief about the existence of god" then having an atheistic belief is a religion, but that isn't how I'd define religion. I'd say a religion needs to: - belief in some sort of supernatural force - have sacred texts/traditions etc The are also many things which seem...

Because you're a pseudo-intellectual moron, perhaps the greatest I've met on this forum (having forwarded me a pm with your own version of physics, it was quite amazing). Yes it is. If you wanted to prove that a drug will not cause cancer you will run test after test using the strongest of...

For those of you actually interested, here's the paper that I think has spawned a lot of the online discussions here: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html