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Originally Posted by Alarti0001
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No your modifiers are describing your word. Atheism is without modifier of course Positive and Negative make the word change.
Denying the belief of god as rational is not positive atheism, saying that god absolutely does exist without evidence would be positive atheism.
Atheism is scientific because to be an atheist you gather information and make a decision based on that information or lack thereof. This information can be tested and evaluated by your peers, and you draw a conclusion. Atheism is simply saying there is no logical reason to belief in a god or creator with the information available. Science has not been able to 100% disprove god yet so until then it is not logical to say i am positive there is no god.
The above method is an example of the scientific method in use. Which is why atheism is scientific. Anyone who says they are atheist without going through this method isn't a real atheist. They fit into one of those modified categories.
Try Logic instead of reason then.
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No application of the scientific method would produce reasoning such as: "If there is no proof that A exists, then A does not exist"
Science simply isn't interested in things for which there is no evidence, since it is impossible to perform any kind of experiments to validate any hypotheses.
And agnostics don't believe that man is somehow incapable of ever proving or disproving the extensive of God. Simply that in our current state of knowledge and understanding about the universe, that we have insufficient evidence to make that kind of determination. Sounds a lot more like science than atheism.
Atheists have far more in common with other people of faith than they'd like to admit.