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It gets amusing to watch nonbelievers state that ANY alternative hypothesis of creation MUST be more plausible than God, because God is impossible.  So an infinity of successive universes, a "spontaneous creation" of everything from nothing for no reason, a black hole...all of these things are more plausible than an Uncaused Cause.

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I don't think anyone has said that God is impossible.  I think the PPs here would just say God is unlikely.[/quote]

Then no one is an atheist.

Only people who look at the preponderance of evidence and choose to have faith in some other explanation for our existence besides God.[/quote]

Atheism is the lack of belief in the existence of gods, not the claim to absolutely know that they do not exist.[/quote]

It's also a term mostly used by "believers" to impugn non-believers.  Why?  Quick, what's the term for someone who doesn't believe in extraterrestrial visitors?  The Easter Bunny?  There is none.  So far as non-believers (atheists, agnostics, whatever) are concerned, there's no special term needed.  We simply think it's misguided.

Further, theists like the term "atheist" because it seems to put atheists and theists on a common footing.  But theism is a belief system.  "Atheism" (or whatever) isn't.  It's a critique of a belief system.[/quote]

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