Nate_Barna comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nate_Barna 16 October 2008 05:18:00PM 0 points [-]

Abe: I find it strange how atheists always feel able to speak for God.

Sometimes, they're not trying to speak for God, as they're not first assuming that an ideally intelligent God exists. Rather, they're imagining and speaking about the theist assumption that an ideally intelligent God exists, and then they carefully draw inferences which tend to end up incoherent on that grounding. However, philosophy of religion reasonably attempts coherence, and not all atheists are completely indifferent toward it.