I don't see atheism like that - I'm essentially agnostic in that I don't know whether there is a God or not
but in my opinion it's far more likely that there isn't. Extraordinary claims (like a god) require extraordinary proof, and I've not seen or heard anything that would convince me that they might be true. I can't say for sure that there isn't a god but at the same time I'm not going to believe in one "just in case". If you read Dawkins, he posits a scale with devout believer at 1 and atheist at 7, then self-identifies as a 6.9 - there may be a god, but it's extremely unlikely. I'd agree with that.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 15:41, 1 reply)

I don't like the scale... I see it more like a starfish in an infinite number of dimensions. All the legs represent a different belief structure and the pointy end bits are the fundamentalists. The central organs are in a seperate, non infinitely diverse state, and that's agnosticism. Once you leave the squishy middle you're not an agnostic, you're a believer who questions their faith, whatever that faith is. The nearer to a leg end, the less questions you accept as valid and the less you really ask. An agnostic will happily slice off legs right left and centre (or interdimensional variations thereof) but never run out of new ones to consider. Someone with faith will quickly reach a balanced state with new legs popping into view only occasionally.

Quantum starfish should be a poster...

I typed this, realised it total bollocks, read it again and laughed and am now posting it.
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 15:54, closed)

I'd buy a poster
:)
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:35, closed)

Great! Now all I need is someone with image editing skills and too much free time...
Fuck knows where I could find anyone like that.
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 16:44, closed)