Re: Atheism is a belief, it's not a science.

On 2024-04-29 17:36:12 +0000, Malte Runz said:

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:38:00 -0700, The Starmaker
<starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
 

The Starmaker wrote:

 Atheism is a belief, it's not a science.

 Religious beliefs and Atheism beliefs are both on the same level of ...beliefs.

 Nope. Atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of a god.

  Atheist are confident that there is no God, ...

 That's a strawman. Not believing in the existence of a god is not the
same as a belief in the non-existence of a god.

Yes. Not believing in God is no more a belief than not collecting stamps is a hobby (Richard Dawkins's example).

 

... as Religions are confident that there is a God.

  "Religions" are not confident that there is a god. The followers are.
Anyway...

   They are are both on the same level of ...beliefs.

 Without claiming knowledge, I would say that I believe there are no
gods. But the difference between my belief and the theist's belief is
that I can be proven wrong, whereas the theist can't. And that is the
fundamental difference between the two kinds of belief.

--
athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots