Frank Apisa

I would have simply said something I have said time and time again to people who claim Agnostics are fence sitters: There is no fence sitting in sayin...

What does that mean, Tim? There is absolutely no unambiguous evidence for or against the existence of gods. There is abundant unambiguous evidence aga...

There is plenty of unambiguous evidence that the "magic hippo" of your example does not exist...and I certainly would hazard a guess on it not existin...

Tim, I will not discuss "god" or "God." If you want to discuss the possibility of "gods" that we can do. As far as "gods" are concerned, my position i...

It is my contention that EVERY use of the words "I believe..." can better be stated using "It is my opinion..." "I estimate..." "My guess is..."...or ...

Not sure how you can say that. On this particular issue...a "belief" is just a disguise word for a blind guess. How more particular can one get? Can y...

No...it is not impossible. Beats the hell out of me. But this is a digression from the the issue. ON THE QUESTION "Does at least one god exist...or ar...

Question??? I did not see any questions (or question marks) in the post to which i was replying. Beats the piss out of me. I do know that if X = objec...

My position is that I am correct. When discussing the question "Does at least one god exist...or are there no gods?"...a "belief" is nothing more than...

Getting unwieldy here. Let's deal with this one item at a time: Atheists want the word "atheist" to include anyone/everyone who lacks a "belief" in an...

If it is being applied to me...I GET TO DEFINE IT. I AM NOT AN ATHEIST...and if anyone is going to define atheist in a way that requires me to be an a...

I'm an agnostic...and I am not an "atheist in practice." I'd love to have you explain why you say that I am an "atheist in practice." I think it will ...

Good for you. I suspect MOST (perhaps, ALL) people who use the descriptor "atheist" also "believe" there are no gods or "believe" it is more likely th...

I answer "I think, no." But I am not sure of what you are actually asking. Would you reword it please.

I'm not exactly sure. For one thing, I doubt I would ever use that pronoun in describing what I mean...despite the fact that so many of the examples I...

Ummm...when I suggest "gods" may or may not exist, I mean any of several things…all of which can be considered a GOD. 1) For instance (but not limited...

I can see that there is precious little chance that we will ever agree on a proper definition of “atheist” or “atheism.” I will try to avoid using the...

Hell no...not if it impacts ME. Suppose you guys decide to define atheism as "Anyone who uses oxygen to stay alive." Would that be reasonable in your ...

There is the possibility that using "blind guess" is stretching things a bit...but I have searched diligently for years myself for any unambiguous evi...

My guess is that you have NO TROUBLE understanding that if a theist says "I am confident that a GOD does exist"...he/she is just expressing a "belief....

The problem is not non-atheists trying to define atheism in a way that better serves their needs...but rather with atheists trying to define it in a w...

Yeah. So long as we are clear that a person saying, "I do not 'believe' X is real"...does not mean that person is saying "I 'believe' X is not real." ...

Yeah, I went hook, line, and sinker for religion earlier. Raised Catholic. Goes with the territory.

The problem with this issue is that atheists are so intent on pretending that they do not possess "beliefs"...that they start arguing from a position ...

A basketball with corners!

"Believe in god?" I do not even use that grammatical form when dealing with the question. When someone says "I believe in..." my guess is they are una...

How about "a four sided triangle?" Or..."a circle with corners?"

Here is how I state my agnosticismt...and I see no logical protocols being violated. I do not know if gods exist or not; I see no reason to suspect go...

Unless I am misreading your OP...I disagree completely. I'm going to take my disagreement in bits and pieces...rather than take such a big bite, neith...

Great response, Dawn...and lots to consider. Unfortunately, my wife just called me into the living room to watch something or other that she wants to ...

Descriptor words, for the most part, suck. Words like liberal, conservative, nice, high, atheist and such are virtually useless. Words certainly are a...

Not sure what kind of rationalizations you are using to arrive at that point,..or why you are using them, Dawn, but it seems contrived to me. THE REAL...

Don't have anything to add, but Einstein is a personal hero. I have 10 or more pictures of him facing me from across the room from where I am typing a...

If there is a god (one of two mutually exclusive possibilities) I am NOT godless...and neither are you. If you want to think "your work" is done here....

And you fucked it up. That is NOT what your question asked. Read it with comprehension. Or better yet, get some school kid to read it for you and expl...

I do not understand what that means. Preexisting bias...is bias that precedes the argument made in either direction. If you are disagreeing with what ...

Here is the question, 180: Yes or No - Are you GODLESS (i.e. Do you LIVE a theistic g/G Belief-FREE, theistic Religion-FREE life ... re: ?????) - (a) ...

Whatever it is, the "claim" shares one thing in common with the claim that either there is at least one god or there are no gods...and that "thing in ...

Your question was an absurdity...poorly conceived and poorly constructed. I gave it the courtesy of a response...a reasonable response. For anyone fol...

I'd have to hear each claim...and then comment on it...rather than as an over-all contention. I'll stick with the "hard atheist" and "hard theist" sug...

Take this in its progression, MOW. Pinprick wrote: "How exactly is one supposed to vote responsibly?" I replied, "If YOU decide to vote or not vote......

Precisely. And Huxley's "need to clarify" was occasioned by the fact that back then (and through all of history) the term atheist meant...someone who ...

I gave you a very specific answer to the question you asked. I refused to be limited to the answers you suggested were the only ones I could have.

And if you use atheist as a descriptor...it makes sense.

Not worthless babble in any way , shape, or form. One of the things I "got" there, though, was a predisposition toward "There probably are no gods"......

I agree that there is plenty of anger on both sides...and, unfortunately, in society in general. Not sure if it has always been this way, but it certa...

More than that. My contention is that I am NOT an atheist. I am saying that any unbiased assessment of what it takes for a person to self-describe as ...

Thank you for this response, CeleRate. I'm going to respond in a following post, but for here, I'd like to share a joke (apparently you've heard it, b...

I did answer your question. Perhaps you did not like my answer. Discuss it with me. I am more than willing.

I gotta be honest with you on this, Pin...I see 50X's more invective hurled at Christians by atheists...than invective hurled by Christians at atheist...