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  • Lausten replied to the topic How do you define atheism for your purposes? in the forum Humanism 5 years, 5 months ago

    I’m no expert at logic, but what I’m hearing is something like this:

    Premise 1: Nothing

    Conclusion: Nothing

    Logical

    But, here we are, in something, so where did it come from?
    Premise 1: Everything has to come from something.

    Conclusion: There must be something that came before everything else.

    This is sometimes referred to as the “logically necessary being.”

    However, at what point did the logic say it was a being? Or that the being has intelligence? Or has purpose? Or that its purpose is good? Or that it cares about what I do when no one is looking?

    But, the question still remains, how did this something get here?

    Premise 1: Everything has to come from something.

    Premise 2: There are things we don’t understand, can’t see, and can’t experiment on.

    Conclusion: We don’t currently know how the universe got here.

    That’s logical, and I’m perfectly fine with it. I’m also fine with people trying figure it out.