If one more person tries to tell me that “atheism is just another kind of faith”, I’m going to cold-cock the sononfabitch.
Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a YouTube video by one of the many atheist voices to be found online addressing a similar line of “reasoning” about the fundamental differences between faith and science:
Last fall, an atheist group in the U.K. made plans to launch an ad campaign on the sides of London buses with the message seen above. With some attention from the national media and from Richard Dawkins, they raised over £135,000 to pay for the ads. That’s enough to put the ads on over 800 buses, not just in London but in other British cities.
The ads began appearing on the buses yesterday, and local bus spotters have sent in photos from as far away as Sheffield showing the ads.
I like the campaign because, unlike some of the confrontational things one tends to see on atheist websites, it’s not demanding the abolishment of religion or some other harsh set of fighting words, but it’s still very much a take-it-or-leave-it statement. We’ve gotten so wrapped around the idea of every contentious issue having to be fought tooth-and-nail by two warring factions until one side is obliterated, that we’re applying the concept in places where it’s really unnecessary. This is a simple statement, and what some might see as a qualification (“probably”) is, in fact, a recognition of the reality that there are some things beyond human proof.
To wit, here is Dawkins himself making one of the most basic logical arguments that many (maybe even all) atheists operate from in their assumption that there is no god. It is called “teapot atheism”, and you should recognize the premise and its validity immediately:
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