It turns out there is a world outside of the womb.
zzzzzz
joined 2 years ago
The belief "there is no God" is not implied by the absence of evidence for God. The absence of evidence for something implies the belief "I do not know if the thing exists". Atheism requires a logical mistep. It is unreasonable to jump from an absence of evidence to a claim on non-existence.
If you re-read what I wrote, you'll find that I did not claim to know what anyone believes inside the womb.
Sure. And, you're free to leave the table. You have the freedom to decide the question is uninteresting or contrived or whatever and never think about it again. Others, however, think the question is interesting enough to pursue. Some of those people go on to report discovering evidence for God through first-hand experience. Those people might all be morons or delusional. The only way you have any chance of knowing for sure is to keep an open mind and try to find the evidence yourself. But, again, no one's forcing you.
It is a question that occurs to all who are sufficiently curious. It is a corollary of the question "Why does anything exist?".
While in the womb, there was no evidence (that you could understand) of a world outside the womb.
But, it turns out, there is.
The burden of proof is on whoever is making a claim. You are making a claim (God does not exist). If you want to think logically, the correct conclusion, in the absence of proof, is "I don't know".
For example. Let's say I have 100 opaque cups set upside down on a table and ask you the question "Is a ball under one of these cups?". It would be logically inappropriate to conclude that there is not until you have looked under every cup. Even if you looked under 99 and found nothing, it would not be proper to extrapolate that there is no ball. Do you understand?
No, you're religious because you are drawing conclusions that are not supported by evidence.
I don't see Cryptomator in the comparison. Doesn't it have a similar feature set?
No, my claim is that you are religious for asserting that there definitely isn't a ball while at the table.