Atheist Forum Conversations 4
Here are excerpts from some of my conversations on a forum called Happy Atheist. It's really hard to edit a forum conversation to include all the relevant discussion without also including a lot of off topic banter. So there may be a line or two in reference to something not included. But I think I got the just of it here. -skeptic griggs- The ignostist argument is that the term God has no meaning, the uninformative tautology that God wills what He wills and "hides our ignorance behind a theological fig leaf."It is a non-explanation. But for the sake of argument, granting meaning to the term, the Occamic argument uses Occam's razor to state that it would require more assumptions - ad hoc ones- than natural explanations, which thus, are sufficient for explanation. Thus, we find natural selection does not depend on God to work and miracles are just natural phenomena- remissions and frauds. God is thus not required as an explanation, even in metaphysics. ...