Is Atheism Irrational?

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Super disappointed in Plantiga - especially that nonsense about the moon. No one believed the moon existed because people acted crazy.

Atheism is not like even-star-ism. I call straw man.

tea-pot-ism is a slightly more interesting example.

agreed. even and odd are exhaustive descriptions of the count of something. whereas atheism is the one belief different from the innumerable number of god beliefs.

its not atheism vs christianity. its atheism as a belief among the near infinite number of past, present, and lets not forget future god belief systems.

our descendents will argue about atheism vs some christianity prime as well.

also this is where Plantinga is coming from:

>A.P.: I should make clear first that I don’t think arguments are needed for rational belief in God.

You don't need to be convinced god is real. You just "know" it.

This is why TDD is good. I may feel my program is correct. After all, I spent so much time writing it and it solves this problem I have. But evidence is required to roll it out into production.

Some atheis are more irrational than fundamental christians.

Well sure. But you're answering a different question.

It becomes irrational when they try to explain that the bigbang came from the nothing, they really put a bad name on science when they try to convince people of that.

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