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==Whether to merge with Skepticism==
==Whether to merge with Skepticism==
There was a suggestion that this article should be merged with Skepticism. At the time it was just a stub and not very clearly defined. I was of the opinion that it had, or should have, a different focus from Skepticism and I've written tried to write the article up a bit more accordingly. I'm suggesting that "I don't know" should explore the validity of responding (honestly) "I don't know" to questions posed by theists. This is important because a characteristic move of some theists is to pose some hard question ("What came before the Big Bang?", "How did life start on Earth?", or whatever) and then to take the atheist's uncertainty as evidence that their own answer, which is held with certainty, must therefore be true. But this is a fallacy -- the degree of certainty with which someone holds an opinion is not itself evidence for that opinion. And it is perfectly in order not to know something and to say that you do not know. <small> [[User:Gravitywave|Gravitywave]] ([[User talk:Gravitywave|talk]]) 18:31, 27 April 2019 (UTC) Comment edited after modifying the article [[User:Gravitywave|Gravitywave]] ([[User talk:Gravitywave|talk]]) 15:29, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
There was a suggestion that this article should be merged with Skepticism. At the time it was just a stub and not very clearly defined. I was of the opinion that it had, or should have, a different focus from Skepticism and I've written the article up a bit more accordingly. I'm suggesting that "I don't know" should explore the validity of responding (honestly) "I don't know" to questions posed by theists. This is important because a characteristic move of some theists is to pose some hard question ("What came before the Big Bang?", "How did life start on Earth?", or whatever) and then to take the atheist's uncertainty as evidence that their own answer, which is held with certainty, must therefore be true. But this is a fallacy -- the degree of certainty with which someone holds an opinion is not itself evidence for that opinion. And it is perfectly in order not to know something and to say that you do not know. <small> [[User:Gravitywave|Gravitywave]] ([[User talk:Gravitywave|talk]]) 18:31, 27 April 2019 (UTC) Comment edited after modifying the article [[User:Gravitywave|Gravitywave]] ([[User talk:Gravitywave|talk]]) 15:29, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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Whether to merge with Skepticism

There was a suggestion that this article should be merged with Skepticism. At the time it was just a stub and not very clearly defined. I was of the opinion that it had, or should have, a different focus from Skepticism and I've written the article up a bit more accordingly. I'm suggesting that "I don't know" should explore the validity of responding (honestly) "I don't know" to questions posed by theists. This is important because a characteristic move of some theists is to pose some hard question ("What came before the Big Bang?", "How did life start on Earth?", or whatever) and then to take the atheist's uncertainty as evidence that their own answer, which is held with certainty, must therefore be true. But this is a fallacy -- the degree of certainty with which someone holds an opinion is not itself evidence for that opinion. And it is perfectly in order not to know something and to say that you do not know. Gravitywave (talk) 18:31, 27 April 2019 (UTC) Comment edited after modifying the article Gravitywave (talk) 15:29, 2 May 2019 (UTC)