re the arrogance of christians phs d vaxc cc monash edu au writes in article apr athos rutgers edu aa freenet carleton ca mark baker writes this is not true the athiest s position is that there is no proof of the existence of god as much as some people accept their church their priests or straight from their own scriptures as the proof this does not satisfy atheists you haven t fully explained the atheist position many theists believe that there is no proof of the existence of god but choose to believe in him anyway i haven t yet found an argument for atheism that can t quickly be broken down to unprovable assumptions this isn t a problem with me everybody needs to have a faith but if you believe that you can provide a purely logical argument for the nonexistence of god i d really like to see it are you asking us to believe blindly you are trying to deny that part of us that makes us ask the question does god exist i e self awareness and reason if we do not use our ability to reason we become as ignorant as the other animals on this earth does god want us to be like that you are right that science and reason cannot prove anything however if we do not use them we can only then believe on faith alone and since we can only use faith why is one picture of god e g hinduism any less valid than another e g christianity ahh but when you use science and reason you have faith in certain beliefs of the scientific method for example the physical laws of the universe are stable our observations of reality are a valid basis for a determination of truth objective reality exists logical argument is a valid way to answer all questions can you prove any of these alan terlep and the scorpion says it s oakland university rochester mi in my nature atterlep vela acs oakland edu
