Are atheists being more illogical than agnostics?

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I do not know if there is a GOD or if there are gods; I do not know if there are no gods; I see no reason to suspect gods cannot exist; I see no reason that suggests gods are needed to explain existence; I do not see enough unambiguous evidence upon which to base a meaningful guess in either direction on the question.

God is a concept that man constructed just as other concepts like the tooth fairy.

Would you use the tooth fairy in the same sentence?

I do not know if there is a tooth fairy or if there are tooth fairies; I do not know if there are no tooth fairies; I see no reason to suspect tooth fairies cannot exist; I see no reason that suggests tooth fairies are needed to explain existence; I do not see enough unambiguous evidence upon which to base a meaningful guess in either direction on the question.

Edgar said (in his 'I Think' thread):- my first wife could "see" things as they happened, particularly with her mother, though they be a thousand miles apart, at the time...Just as I felt the emotional tug, when certain people died, even though I was not in the same city, in any of the cases, or a dog will sometimes howl when their absent owner dies, there is a connection between people, including some animals, that is in mundane circumstances undetectable

Okay...but do you have any evidence that gods do not exist...or cannot exist? If not, you should not be making the assertion

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Okay...but do you have any evidence that gods do not exist...or cannot exist? If not, you should not be making the assertion

Would it be wrong if I asserted that invisible mermaids do not exist being I have no evidence to support my claim?

Let me guess you think it could be possible but maybe not probable?

I absolutely have no burden for proving anything, godwise.

That falls to you and people who think that way.

Edgar said: I absolutely have no burden for proving anything, godwise. That falls to you and people who think that way

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Edgar said: I absolutely have no burden for proving anything, godwise. That falls to you and people who think that way

It's not quite as cut-and-dried as that mate.
The Bible is chock full of thousands of accounts of close encounters of various kinds between humans and off-world beings, so why shouldn't we believe them?
Atheists on the other hand have zilch backup and just operate on guesses and hunches..

Frank Apisa said: I really wish you were on someone else's side, Romeo...

I really wish you were on someone else's side, Romeo...

Edgar said: My final post on the subject: You and romeo and neologist have the burden of proof. Because without it you have nothing

As I said, we have nothing to talk about, because you insist that something that does not exist must have evidence it does not exist, over and over. My final post on the subject: You and romeo and neologist have the burden of proof. Because without it you have nothing.

Maybe you can figure out now something that a lot of us posters have in common.

See, I have argued with most of the people you're arguing with here and I dislike most of them (I'm sure the feelings are mutual). The one thing we all have in common is we can see you for the big-headed charlatan that you are. You cannot hide that regardless of how many emoticons and this-is-fun's you type.

Notice anything familiar in most of these arguments here regarding burden of proof? That's because you and I had the same argument weeks ago. The reason you're always on the losing side of this is because you're WRONG. However, older folks like yourself don't typically like to be told that they're wrong and have been wrong for years.

As it was pointed out to you earlier and on many threads in the past, the burden of proof always falls upon the person make the extraordinary claim.

I laughed my ass off when you compared not seeing god to not seeing atoms. That's probably in the top 10 of stupid things you've said, but I digress.

You dislike most of the posters with whom you disagree?
That's interesting. I can't think of any I dislike. That includes the old general who just surprised my jaw. Most of us, if we met in a tavern, would joyfully pop the cool ones and play a round of darts. If we were neighbors, we would look after each other's places when they were out of town. It's the thing we do. In the grand scheme of things, the arguments we paste and post here are just lip flappin and jabberin.