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And that's because the existence of a God is about as important to me as the existence of ghosts, that is, not very, despite all of your "implications". I don't give a rats' about implications. :p

Well, agnosticism is the only intellectually honest view (out of both theism and atheism); but when you consider that I apply atheistic agnosticism on the same level to things other than God, such as ye olde fairies, unicorns, ghosts, Santa Claus and Bertrand's celestial teapot, I think you'd...

Well to be fair, I'm actually trying to avoid intellectual dishonesty by saying "I don't believe in God" and not having any proof to back that statement up (not that one can prove a negative, but you get the point) - that's why I say you can be both agnostic (I don't think we will ever know...

IDK, I learned, and pretty quickly too. I went to a same-sex school throughout highschool, and I'm glad I did. The female cliques were bad enough; I couldn't imagine how bad it would have been with males added to the mix!

I wouldn't recommend Dragonball Evolution, largely because it's unlikely the markers will have any idea what you're talking about.

Hawking set to recover from chest infection Phew.

Oh yes they are (I should know, we're getting one) - the new ones, anyway (though I typoed - it's a TSI, not FSI).

Sure it can. It's the antithesis of a definition (theism), and I don't know about you, but I don't know of any theist cats :p That's why I say atheism is a default position.

What? I don't understand why that would be the case or even if it was, an important one given it's.. not relevant to anything? In that case, why the need for an objective right or wrong, when everyone arrives at the same conclusion anyway as a product of our biology? Again, why the...

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Uh oh, DGE? thread newbie ahead. Correction: it's hard to fathom if you don't know anything about science. And evolution actually has nothing to say about the ultimate origin of life - for that, you need to check out abiogenesis. Abiogenesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Why? We...

What about the Dead Sea Scrolls? Just because something has passed down unchanged in the oral or print traditions, it does not mean it's divine. Unless you want to apply the same logic to the Epic of Gilgamesh and other ancient texts.

Yes. And?

This is true. However, why does there need to be an ultimate meaning to life/purpose to existence? Biology doesn't care about meaning; why should you? The fallacy there is assuming morality comes from God or religion. It never did - religion may be a representation of our innate morality...

What do you have to back up this claim, though, other than your belief in it? I'm sorry I'm being stubborn, but I don't see any other reason why in your mind God's existence would be more important (have "more implications"; i.e. "my God is better than yours") than any other supernatural...

...that's your opinion, though. A believer in fairies (or unicorns, or the FSM, whatever) may have the opposite opinion. You can only say it is an opinion, because there is no objective truth in the relative importance of each belief - because they are relatively different in importance...

I agree. Carry on.

It's not irrelevant at all (and I said nothing about the necessity of belief). That's what you're doing. You say that the question of God is more important than the question of fairies, but the only explanation for that is because you believe in a God, and you don't believe in fairies, and thus...

Not really. You're imparting extra importance on your belief in the existence of God because you believe in God. Obviously the non-existence of fairies is insignificant to you because you don't believe in them. We don't believe in God. Thus its "non-existence" is just as unimportant to us as...

Well that's because you believe. I'm sure the kooks that believe in fairies see plenty of evidence for their existence as well, and place very high importance of the issue of their existence. God is no different from fairies in the cornucopia of supernatural belief.