... what? How did you arrive at that belief? Dragonlord, as you point out yourself, just made his first posting here. He may well have formed his impression of "athists" in the local coffee shop, or at talk.origins, or by reading the comments at Pharyngula.
But let me come right out with the real question. What is the proper label for someone like myself who knows of no evidence for or against the existence of a deity, but chooses to believe that there is no God?
Strong atheist.
And, btw, calling PZ and Sam Harris "epistemically careful" is not what I would call evidence-based analysis.
Compared to typical justifications offered for God-belief? I'm not grading them on the same curve I use for Less Wrong users. And Dawkins, Dennett, and Dillahunty would pass even by that standard.
RobinZ: I read Dragonlord as talking about prominent atheist writers like Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris, or even P. Z. Myers - who are all epistemically careful.
Perplexed: ... what? How did you arrive at that belief?
RobinZ: Look at the parent comment.
I did. I still fail to see why you think someone who can't even spell "atheist" was talking about the "four horsemen".
...Perplexed: What is the proper label for someone like myself who knows of no evidence for or against the existence of a deity, but chooses to believe tha
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