The lack of belief that anything exists that cannot be described by natural laws or the belief that everything that exists can be described by natural laws.
When did I do that?
Nothing Exists--> Self Exists --> Physical Universe may or may not exist but we should act as thought it does.
In order to believe in something other than than the universe I can observe and the forces that act on it, I would need some sort of evidence.
The terms god and goddess are generally seen as interchangeable when referring to a female deity.
Your counter-argument against the argument that his thoughts and visions where to vague to be his is that his thoughts and visions where not vague because if they where then they would not be his?
To be honest, I also felt that my beliefs where sketchy when I was not a skeptic. It is what caused me to do some introspection about why I believe what I believe.
Frankly it seems to come down to: "I don't believe in other gods because I believe in Christianity."
This begs the question of...
First you doubt everything even your own thoughts, after all everything that you see or think could be false or deceptions.
But in order to be deceived or have false thoughts, something that means that "you" must exist and be having thoughts. So therefore you are a thinking thing. That you can...
He does not understand that if he ignores that the negative stance is the default one that he must disprove every single other claim in order to have his own stand.
In all honesty, I have lied a lot in my life and have made a lot of clever deceptions before. Especially to myself.
But honesty feels much better than all of it.
Actually you are correct.
The Big-Bang theory does not state that it has to have been of infinite density, it is just one of the most leading interpretations.
Belief that it did not.
The big-bang theory states that the universe went from a state of infinite density into what we have today. Before that point physical laws as we understand them would not likely be applicable. Currently it is impossible to truly know what happened before the universe...
Okay I know a thing or two about HEMA, historical European martial arts, and I am going to tell you that a sword could not kill a dragon if they existed. You would have trouble with even a pike.
You just called dragons greater than humans. Why the contradiction?