Besoeker wrote:I have no belief in any god or any supernatural entity. How can I make that any clearer? No belief in any god. Got that?
No belief is one thing. Proclaiming the non-existence is another. An agnostic also has no belief but will not claim to know about the non-existence of a God, creator or otherwise.
Now, there may be specific gods that an agnostic will be happy to proclaim as non-existing. But a creator God would be difficult if not impossible to formally disprove because this God does not necessarily have physical properties that we would be able to point to. The watchmaker God cannot be dismissed out of hand just because you think it makes the most sense to you.
Evidence for something that doesn't exist??? Are you for real. No I don't. And you don't have any evidence that the FSM doen't exist. That's how silly your question is.
Sure, there's plenty of evidence that the FSM doesn't exist. Namely, the person who originated the FSM as an idea never actually thought that the FSM existed or wanted even to give the illusion of its existence. The FSM doesn't exist because it is satire, meant to specifically show how ridiculous it would be to advance any religious text or idea (specifically intelligent design) in the classroom. That's a fair point, to me. However, what's not a fair point is the way atheists like you use that to try to convince people who believe in God that their ideas are invalid, because you are using the FSM in a way that it cannot be used. Namely, you are using the FSM as a placeholder for other supernatural entities that people actually believed or believe in, including God. The difference is that nobody believes in the FSM, and nor was it meant to be believed, and nor was it meant to be used as an argument in the way that you are using it as an argument.
You do admit, however, that you have no evidence that God does not exist. If that's true, why proclaim God's non-existence as a matter of fact? You can't actually know that God doesn't exist, that's just an arbitrary choice about the matter you have made.
It is not a practical choice either, which is the real reason for this thread. You haven't made a practical choice, you've made a choice based on which answer you believe is right. It is not based on anything that you can actually point to, you just think you're right. And you lose the benefits that faith brings you.