I'm going to bring my comments to an end here. It's been a good discussion. The truth is, at some point even the atheist has to make an unfalsifiable claim (like appealing to the Anthropic Principle) to support the unfalsifiable claim that there is no God.
Nope. An Atheist is allowed to say "we don't know".
PS: The Anthropic Principle isn't an unfalsifiable claim. It's not actually a claim at all, more of an observation.
You can have good reasons for believing in God or not believing in God.
Some people desperately
want to believe in a god, eg. the human genome guy in the video. These people are capable of twisting any data to support their claims.
eg. In the video he says the the two contradictory versions of creation in Genesis is actually a hint to really smart readers that Genesis isn't supposed to be read literally. Each individual verse is supposed to be interpreted by the reader as either literal or metaphor depending on context.
I'm guessing "context" is another way of saying "if it makes any sense". With logic like that you can literally use The Bible as proof of anything.
What I want to know is why Christians don't hold Atheists the the same loose standards?
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In this very thread I've been asked for
exact proof of how life began on earth by the same people who think genome guy has a rock-solid argument.
Therefore, I'd suggest to be careful when you criticize or dismiss another person's beliefs.
Sigh...
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If the politicians were openly using astrology, Ouija boards or calling on Poseidon in their political decisions I bet a lot of Christians would be quite vocal about that.
How many teenagers (and adults) are having their lives made miserable right now by bunches of Christians trying to
"Pray Away The Gay". Where did the "tolerance" go?
etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
Religion is
FAR from harmless.