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Why is Objectivism atheistic rather than agnostic?

Agnosticism, in the philosophical sense, holds that we should not reject anything that we have not disproved (particularly the claim that God exists). Because agnosticism refuses to reject arbitrary propositions, agnosticism is false. Agnosticism is wrong about how to approach claims that lack evidence. A proposition that is not supported by any evidence at all should be rejected not as false, but as arbitrary, and should not even be entertained as a hypothesis. The proposition that God exists is an example of an arbitrary proposition (see David Kelley, ''Is Objectivism Compatible with Religion?''). The burden of proof is on he who advances a claim—it is not the atheist’s responsibility to disprove the existence of God, whether or not it is possible to do so.

Date: 5/5/2004



  
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