That is why it’s called faith. faith is believing something you can’t prove–like atheism and evolution.
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Don't you own a mirror? Faith is believing something you can't prove, like god. Evolution, yes, we can demonstrate it and we can watch it happen and we know how it works. Unfortunately, that knowledge is only available to those with a background in the relevant sciences.
Atheism, however, is not a thing to be "proved". It is what remains when you don't believe in magical gods.
The burden of proof is up to the claimant.
You claim that god exist, but so far no believer has ever succeed in that endeavour.
Evolution is a fact, deal with it. It is proven, documented and observable in experimental conditions.
Jim: "Faith is believing something you can’t provelike atheism and evolution."
Atheist: "Atheism is the negative response to the positive claim 'There is a God!' from theists. So it's the theists who have the burden of proof. They have to show to a great enough degree of certainty that their God is in fact real! And evolution has been *observed*! Case in point: nylon-eating bacteria!"
Jim (very smugly): "How are you wrong? Let me count the ways! It has been regarded as a self-evident fact for all of human history that God(s) exist, atheism is the exception to the rule! So it's *atheists* who have the burden of proof. They have to prove *beyond all possible doubt* that there is not now, nor has there ever been, a God! And it has never happened that a zoo monkey has turned into a human, so evolution has NOT been observed!!"
Disclaimer:
I don't want to toss Pavlovitz under the bus along with that idiot. He's a nice guy and a very rare type of American christian, meaning he's intelligent and kind.
That said, he does get some foaming-at-the-mouth commenters from time to time, and I feel this quote reflects this while not representing Pavlovitz's blog on the whole.
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."________Mark Twain
“Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge,
of things without parallel.”__________Ambrose Bierce
It's easy to prove atheism : just stop believing in God for a few minutes.
evolution is a tougher beast, but proofs are countless.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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