{"id":3389,"date":"2017-07-28T03:25:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T10:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2017-07-28T03:25:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T10:25:43","slug":"you-dont-have-to-know-to-not-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3389","title":{"rendered":"You Don’t Have to Know to Not Think So"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question from Neil:<\/strong>
\nWhy do atheists mostly dismiss the existence of an intelligent creator of any kind?
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\nI see no firm evidence of any god being especially the Old Testament one, he doesn’t seem to be aware the Earth moves among many other things!
\nBut I accept the possibility that one could exist and may have caused the Big Bang.
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\nUntil we discover what did cause the Big Bang it seems arrogant to dismiss the possibility.
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\nAthiests are accused of being arrogant (mainly by arrogant religious people). I wonder if they’re right or are most atheists really agnostics?
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\nAnswer by SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong>
\nIt all depends, heavily, on the atheist.
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\nLike you I acknowledge the possibility, however remote, that there is or was a creator god or equivalent entity. To know for a fact that there wasn’t one would take more information than the human race as access to at the moment. I’m still an atheist because I don’t think or believe that there was a creator, but I accept that there’s a chance I’m wrong simply because I don’t know. That makes me an agnostic atheist<\/em>, same as Dawkins, same as Dennett and same as many other prominent atheists who spell out their positions in public. I think most or at least a lot of atheists are agnostic but statistics on that are hard to come by.
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\nThose who claim to know<\/em> there’s no god are gnostic atheists<\/em> and when I discuss gods with them, like you I ask them how they think they know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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