Sometimes. Atheism says nothing about anything other than your belief in gods. I may not believe in God because I heard that Santa said God isn't real.
Having said all that, I would guess that on average most atheists are probably BETTER logicians than most theists.
There are a couple different standards for truth, and they boil down to these two:
consensus or evidence.
1. In that more people believe in God than not, the consensus basis of proof is fulfilled for the existence of God (although the consensus on the nature of God is pretty disorganized). By the measure of consensus, there is a God. This is based on a consensus that there is evidentiary proof of God, because the great majority of people belive that creation alone is a pretty persuasive bit of evidence. The problem with the consensus basis for truth is that all of humanity has been mistaken many times, over a great number of things nearly everybody agreed was true :)
2. Proof. Hmmm... There are whole *books* on how to establish objective truth, but to cut to the chase... Without relying on the consensus basis of truth, only personally observed evidence counts. On THIS basis most people are foolish to believe in, say, emus, much less God. Unless you have personal experience of God, or first hand knowledge and recognition of God in the physical world, you have no basis for belief in God, but as with emus, no personal proof that God does *not* exist either. If you are one to be committed to evidence as a basis of truth, then it is illogical to be an atheist, because you cannot possibly gather personal evidence of the non-existence of God. The logical position is Agnostic (don't know), and after a periof of diligent investigation, you might validly progress to skeptic, if you found no evidence of God.
3. Finally, you could decide we can know nothing, because there is no valid basis for proof of any kind. We are trapped in minds of a certain design, subject to faith in our known-to-be biased and fault senses (ever watched a magician?). In which case you also cannot know if there is a God, or anything else.
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i have seen a lot of them use logical fallacy's
mostly Ad Hominium
saying were are stupid and correcting our grammar instead of answering the question
generalizing all Christians
on saying that thiests do to
Sometimes. Atheism says nothing about anything other than your belief in gods. I may not believe in God because I heard that Santa said God isn't real.
Having said all that, I would guess that on average most atheists are probably BETTER logicians than most theists.
No. In fact more logicians are atheists.
And I have the same questions for Christians:
Stop using circular reasoning, stop using the "fact" that you are trying to prove as your premises! This is bad reasoning!
You can't exactly persuade me that Scripture is true by quoting Scripture.
Ha ha ha ha ha you are fun for asking :)
There are a couple different standards for truth, and they boil down to these two:
consensus or evidence.
1. In that more people believe in God than not, the consensus basis of proof is fulfilled for the existence of God (although the consensus on the nature of God is pretty disorganized). By the measure of consensus, there is a God. This is based on a consensus that there is evidentiary proof of God, because the great majority of people belive that creation alone is a pretty persuasive bit of evidence. The problem with the consensus basis for truth is that all of humanity has been mistaken many times, over a great number of things nearly everybody agreed was true :)
2. Proof. Hmmm... There are whole *books* on how to establish objective truth, but to cut to the chase... Without relying on the consensus basis of truth, only personally observed evidence counts. On THIS basis most people are foolish to believe in, say, emus, much less God. Unless you have personal experience of God, or first hand knowledge and recognition of God in the physical world, you have no basis for belief in God, but as with emus, no personal proof that God does *not* exist either. If you are one to be committed to evidence as a basis of truth, then it is illogical to be an atheist, because you cannot possibly gather personal evidence of the non-existence of God. The logical position is Agnostic (don't know), and after a periof of diligent investigation, you might validly progress to skeptic, if you found no evidence of God.
3. Finally, you could decide we can know nothing, because there is no valid basis for proof of any kind. We are trapped in minds of a certain design, subject to faith in our known-to-be biased and fault senses (ever watched a magician?). In which case you also cannot know if there is a God, or anything else.
So yes. Atheists are lousy logicians. lol
Bertrand Russell? Einstein? Darwin? Hawking?
Eh no!
Describing them as "poor logicians" is being overly generous to them.
Generally quite the opposite.
And Christians make terrible Christians... when it comes to Humility.
Oh, sure. It's never logical to dismiss outrageous claims that have no supporting evidence.
Oh, wait...I think I got that backwards. Never mind.
Peace.
No because they don't use theories or fables to base their decisions or reach conclusions