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Bassam Zawadi
Looked at most of the slideshow and listened to 5 minutes of the Atheism and Materialism recording and I've lost count of the number of points I wanted to make.
First things first I suppose, the definition of atheism.
The prefix 'a' (or 'an') is from the Greek meaning 'absence of', therefore atheism can be defined as the absence of a theistic belief, though it has come to also mean the rejection of theistic belief.
agnosticism:
Thomas Huxley invented the term and said the following about it:
"it is wrong for a man to say he is certain of the objective truth of a proposition unless he can provide evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what agnosticism asserts and in my opinion, is all that is essential to agnosticism."
In my opinion, if someone were to assert "we cannot possibly know whether God exists or not", they would cease to be an agnostic because this is a belief not founded in logic or evidence. This is
unless the definition of God included in his attributes the state of being unknowable in which case the agnostic would just be stating the obvious.
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In your recording you say that science cannot go beyond the natural world, but you are making the assumption and claim that such a thing as the supernatural world exists. Where is the evidence that it does?
Quoting the Quran to prove the Quran isn't going to help.