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Originally Posted by renderator  Hello, everybody.
My question is to agnostics. Why are you not atheists?
For example, I say that there are little pink elephants living on the Moon. They are very fast and smart and hide quickly, so nobody has never revealed them and will never reveal them. Do you believe you really cannot answer if these little pink elephants exist or not?
Or R. Dawkins' example of a flying teapot?
Is God more possible than those little pink elephants or the teapot? Why? | You will have to clarify by what you mean by atheist. It seems that you contend that an atheist must be sure that there is no God. This is a false definition and shoots down the rest of your statements. EVERY agnostic, if not an atheist, is a theist; it's one or the other.
As for comparing God to fairies and whatnot, the question of God is much more implicative, granted importance alone does not measure how true something is. I think if anyone puts God in the same level as leprechauns and Santa, then they are question begging by assuming none of those exist.
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