Depends on probabilities: imagine opening your wallet and finding no money - is the lack of evidence for money the evidence for the lack of money? But imagine sitting on a train and finding no kids around you, is that evidence for the lack of kids in the city?
Scientists frequently use that...
What you might miss in your speculations is that the majority of the world population struggles with everyday existence. You surely remember Maslow's pyramid - most of the world is eager to forfeit the planet's future for something to eat. I bet you don't have this kind of concern.
We usually run into cognitive dissonance as we strive to ascribe everything good to God and everything bad to something else.
The "Written by God" claim needs to deal with all the errors and the wrongs in the scripture while "Inspired by God" introduces a human buffer that can be blamed for...
This is another misunderstanding of the Theory of Evolution and the scientific method in general. We don't deny divine or super intelligence dogmatically, we reject it as practically useless and empirically untestable. In plain words, we are not "against" the idea, we simply don't know what to...
This is a common misunderstanding of atheistic foundations, namely naturalism. It says NOTHING about the level of our current understanding of a phenomenon, it is about its attribution. Let me give you a simple example - you are experiencing severe abdominal pain, would you attribute it to a...
There's undoubtedly an overlap between the two terms, and most people use both interchangeably and loosely anyway.
I differentiate them by their purpose: a myth is a fiction that explains a phenomenon by using usually supernatural out-of-this-world characters, and a legend is a fable aimed at...