{"id":403,"date":"2010-08-27T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T21:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2010-08-27T07:50:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T21:50:01","slug":"atheism-an-argument-from-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Atheism an “argument from ignorance”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question from Jay:<\/strong>
\nHow is an atheist’s argument that there is no God any different from a Deist’s argument that there is a God? Both are unfalsifiable stances. How is an atheist’s view any better? You maintain your stance because it is the best answer you can come up with. You cannot rationally explain your stance any better than I can. How do you rationally know there isn’t a God? I know, you’ll say I don’t know 100 percent, well nobody does. But you asked this same question to a Deist, can you answer it?
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\nAnswer:<\/strong>
\nI don’t know for sure that there isn’t a god, and I never said I did. I simply don’t believe that there is one, and I don’t think it’s likely either for reasons I’ll go into when answering your subsequent question.
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\nDeists have an easier time defending their position than theists because they don’t have to establish any interference by a god since what they see as the act of Creation. Of course they do have to argue for Creation the same as theists, and there’s your overlap. I’ve laid out my basic position on the cosmological argument here<\/a> in response to both theists and deists.
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\n– SmartLX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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