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Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.

Personally, I'm open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.

Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.

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[–] aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Saying that I’m making a god of the gaps argument would also mean that you are making a science of the gaps argument.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Except, when you fill the gaps with science, you have evidence and proof. Not superstition and ancient myth.

[–] aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But you're still leading yourself into a fallacious argument. It's not any better.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's only a fallacious argument if you don't say "we can't answer that yet" and maybe add, "but here are some theories..."

"I don't know" does not mean "therefore the supernatural is real."

[–] aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My goal really is to convince people to sit on the fence about it.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Convince people that the supernatural is real? Because that is exactly what you're not doing with this line of argument.