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Knowledge

What do we know? And how do we know it? This question has been debated by philosophers for many years, and many arguments can be traced back to the times of Plato and Socrates. The study of acquisition of knowledge is known as Epistemology, and you will quite often find many atheists and theists alike use concepts from epistemology to justify their position.

In order to better use and understand these arguments, we must first examine what it is that epistemology is, and how it relates to theological arguments.

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The Universe is Old

In 1989, NASA launched a very ambitious project into orbit in the form of a satellite. It was called the “Cosmic Background Explorer” (COBE), a satellite designed to measure radiation from interstellar sources. To the scientific community’s surprise, it detected a large amount of background radiation - coming in from every direction in the universe. What the satellite was detecting was the residual effect of very hot elements, decayed over time. The question is — where did all of this radiation come from? The scientific community’s resounding answer: The Big Bang.

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What is Secular Humanism?

Secular Humanism is a philosophy that enforces the innate moral code that we all posses. The Council for Secular Humanism posts a list of tenets here, that outline the basic fundamentals of what secular humanists believe in.

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Definition - Atheism

To begin our FAQ section, we must answer one the most fundamental question about atheism: what it is.

There are two explanations for what atheism “is”: the short explanation and the long explanation. We’ll start with the short definition:

Atheist: one who has no belief in a god or gods.

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