Atheism is predicated on this separation of things
Atheism is the lack of belief in God/gods, materialism is predicated on the physical separation of physical things, not atheism. Materialism is what states that "nothing exists outside of physical matter," not atheism
using the atheists' own epistemology against them?
Atheism has no epistemology, only a lack of belief, not all atheists believe in naturalism, naturalism is the belief all beings and events in the universe (whatever their inherit character may be) are natural, atheism only has no belief in God/gods
The atheist possesses infinite things with infinite properties (if all atoms, etc. in the universe are counted)
No, this is the materialist perspective, not the atheist perspective, atheism makes no claim of the nature of physical reality, only a lack of belief in a deity/deities
1. Atheism possesses infinite things with infinite properties
2. Pantheism possesses one thing with infinite properties.
An atheist can believe everything is one single entity like a pantheist does, only the atheist would not believe everything to be God,
If the Universe is believed to be all of one thing, but doesn't fit the definition of God (the intelligent creator of all of existence), then the Universe being all one thing would be atheistic
atheism has not been proven just less likely than pantheism, but has been proven to be logically absurd
Nothing on the likelihood/logical absurdity of atheism was proven
The atheist cannot also agree with me and say that all is one
The atheist can say all is one, since everything is one with (within) the Universe
If we assume nothing exists, all we can be assured of is our own minds' existence
If nothing exists, not even our own minds would exist, since the mind is a thing-nothing is assured to exist, not even one's own mind,
1. The mind and body are two separate substances, and have no shared properties
2. two substances need one shared property to interact
3. the mind and body cannot interact
The mind and body are shared, connected by the brain, the brain controls the body and has the mind within it, the mind and body interact constantly via the brain
Solipsism
Solipsism believes only in the mind's own existence
everything is one's own consciousness. As such, you are God the creator within a solipsistic worldview. You create the universe through your own consciousnes
When I was conceived in the womb I had no consciousness, no conscious thought, my mind/brain wasn't developed enough. If I created the universe through my own consciousness, how did I become alive with no consciousness? In this definition I wouldn't even create myself because I had no consciousness when I was created, how can I be God the creator if I didn't create myself? My existence is because of forces outside/beyond my control/consciousness,
The Universe includes everything in existence
I did not create myself through my own consciousness
I am included in the Universe as something in existence
I did not create the Universe through my own consciousness
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Atheism is a disbelief, the disbelief in a deity/deities, it is not a belief, it does not make any claim to the nature of physical reality
The Instigator conflates atheism with materialism/physicalism, the belief that physical matter is all that exists as separate entities within the Universe
All the Instigator does in the opening is decrease the probability of materialism in infinite sets as infinite things exist within the Universe in a materialist physical framework, not an atheist one, at 0 point do they make any move to disprove atheism itself
A pantheist may believe everything is one entity as God, an atheist may believe everything is one entity but not as God, infinite things with infinite properties is gone, only the belief/existence in God is left
Existence is independent to my own consciousness, I've existed via conception when I wasn't conscious of my own existence, I did not create my own existence, I am not God the creator
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Ha Ha!!!
Might as well try and prove pink unicorns exist too.
Is there a way for a mod to forfeit the round since Ehyeh is banned?
Thank you and good luck!