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Re: The conflict between Agnostics and Atheists in a knowledge economy

Jim Devine wrote:
>
> On 3/9/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ... Thus for me a proof of the existence of a god
> > would have to be grounded in the premise that there was no god.
>
> that sounds like circular reasoning.

No. It is an argument that there is no reason to consider the existentce
of the nonexistence -- of whuch god is merely a special case.

The question "Does God exist?" belongs to the same realm of discourse as
"Are indy race cars really disguised dinosaurs?" Prove they are not!

Carrol
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