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This varies form person to person. Atheism is closely linked with science, and science does not prove anything, it only disproves. So I doubt many people will say they can "prove" there is no God. Personally, my beliefs are based on a "balance of probability", this means that I accept many of the theories around today about how life first came about and how it evolved, but I also accept that some questions cannot be answered, like "what caused the Big Bang". However, I believe one day we will be able to answer questions such as this, and my arguement for why I do not believe in God will get stronger with more knowledge and understanding.
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NO it is based on the understanding of dogma and or the understanding of peoples belief structure.
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NO it is based on the understanding of dogma and or the understanding of peoples belief structure. Atheist do not have a structrue. It is obivous to me thaat you are asking aa question basied on a belief in god. Try aniother approach. This one is flawed.
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I don't think there is a way to describe an "atheist belief structure" when atheism is basically the absence of belief. What may involve probabilities or proofs is the process of letting go of a theist belief structure, if a person was previously a god-believer and later became an atheist. In this case a person may decide that religious "proofs" are not convincing enough to sustain their belief in a god. The questioner may assume that all atheists are coming from this angle, however many atheists were not raised in a church and never had a belief structure to begin with, and therefore no need to create some "counter-belief" structure. Normally, though, probabilities and proofs come into play when atheists and god-believers interact with each other and try to convince each other of their position. A theist doesn't need probabilities and proofs because they have faith - an atheist doesn't need them because they have none. Often we will try to out-reason each other with them but in our day to day lives this is simply not involved.
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Atheists by definition have no belief structure. Atheists do not base their lives on belief (faith),whether you are referring to belief in a god or anything else. They base their lives on what their reasoning tells them is right. Reasoning includes personal observation (including the gathering of knowledge), statements of persons who have proven to be reliable, analysis and logic. (Please do not interpret this to mean that I'm saying believers don't use logic!!!) In the absence of proofs, an atheist is likely to rely on probabilities, or even on his/her favorite theory, just like anyone else. If a theory proves wrong, you may have to change your premise, some of your facts may be wrong, or your conclusion is unsupported. So the "structure" is a work in progress.
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No belief structure that takes a position on the existence or non-existence of a god or gods is really based on proofs as we would normally define them. We can't prove the existence or the non-existence of a god- you can argue the toss if you like but there it is. When it comes down to it- we don't know. Whether that means atheism (or anything else) is based on probability is questionable though. I can't speak for other atheists, but my own atheism is based mainly around the fact that I can't see any reason why there would be a God- I don't go around believing other random things so I don't see any reason why I should pick that one. (don't blast me- its just my opinion!)
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There is no "atheist belief structure". Atheism is not a religion: religions are composed of a number of beliefs, thus structured. Atheism is just ONE belief, which can be a part of a religions structure, or can stand alone. Atheism is simply the belief that there is/are no god(s), period. Different people come to that belief by different means.
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If you have proof, you don't need belief. A thousand people can call the Mountains fiction, but you need not worry yourself with it as you stand atop them.
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What belief structure?
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