First off, to assume so is to assume the ignorance of the majority of the world, because most people accept the possibility of God as have many of the brilliant thinkers. Is it possible that the God accepting majority as not ignorant, but have simply drawn a different conclusion after examining the same evidence? Because most people who believe in God DO NOT reject or dismiss empirical evidence, but some may disagree with the interpretations and speculations based in that evidence.
So moving on, if merely disagreeing with the prevailing thought of the day makes one ignorant then atheists would automatically be ignorant for rejecting the majority view of God. I don’t believe that and for the same reason I have no reason to assume that a person who believes in God is ignorant for interpreting the evidence differently than an atheist.
Furthermore, even if somehow an atheist did know more than all of those who believe in God, one cannot reasonably claim that God does not exist without also believing that they are all-knowing. But that is not possible, because our human ability to contain knowledge is most definitely finite. Therefore, since we are only a tiny (finite) part of a universe (if not infinite) that is much bigger than our human ability to comprehend fully, that alone proves it is impossible to even know all that is contained within our universe, not to mention that might be beyond it. Thus to claim that there is no God with any degree of certainty is not a logical conclusion. The only logical conclusion is that God may or may not exist.
My question is this, why do some who reject the concept of God attempt to paint all who disagree as ignorant? Why paint with such a broad brush? Why rely on straw man arguments to attack those who disagree? Why not address the arguments for God at their strongest point?
Note: It is no secret that some who believe in God are ignorant, that is not my question. Again my question, if you don’t believe in God, why assume that those who believe in God believe so because they don’t know what you do?
2007-06-22
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