Big Bang?

[jbor at bigpond.com]

> Come on, man, you're employing rhetorics here. This is almost 
> sophistry. I know you're better than that.

The irony is, that, or something very like it, was exactly what 
occurred to me when I first read what you'd written. ("Mere 
semantics.") But I decided to show rather than tell.

best

> On 30/09/2005, at 9:43 AM, Cyrus wrote:
>
>>
>> Actually, Physics (or anyone, for that matter) cannot conclude that 
>> there is no God, because it is impossible to disprove an existential 
>> claim.
>>
>> Therefore, atheism is not the "belief" or "faith" that there is no 
>> God. Atheism is the absense of theism, i.e. the absense of a belief 
>> in a god. Usually, atheists who outright claim that there is no god 
>> do so with the sole purpose of irritating Christians.