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Originally Posted by tompe
Atheism is a lack of belief. And there are no good evidence for the existence of god so lack of belief is the reasonable position. For some definitions of a god it can be shown that the definitions are inconsistent and therefore nonsense. So there you have positive evidence for holding the non-existence of a specific god for true.
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Actually, atheism seems to be the belief that there is no god. The lack of belief would be agnosticism. Most people are apatheists without thinking though.
According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheism
Just some more words to spend time on
