Catholic Scientist writes:
All concepts come from human imagination. This says nothing about the existance of some being that the concept is about. Without getting into the details, its impossible for you to know if the being could exist or not. You are, quite literally, without knowledge of whether it exists or not.
I understand your point to an extent CS, and I suspect others do as well.... but I can't help but point out that, according to this logic, I should be
agnostic about a 7-toed sloth that lives in hollowed out human skull on Pluto, directing his army of nano-machines to slowly take over the Earth and enslave the human race. WHY should I be agnostic about this? It is indeed impossible for me to know if this being exists or not, but on a
scale of probabilities, I can rationally conclude the chance that it doesn't exist
far outweighs the chance that it does exist in all its specifics. Therefore I declare myself an
atheist with regard to above mentioned evil-doer. And... in that same vein... I declare myself an atheist towards God(s).
I would add, in the sense of the deist God, the non-intervening one, that I would put a notably larger weight on that possibility, as it is far less open to criticism than the very
specific supernatural entities presented in the major religions, and thus far harder to dismiss using the knowledge available to us. Nonetheless, I (personally) still place a low probability rating on this possibility as well... that's just me, and just my opinion, I freely admit it. BUT - can you see the idea I'm trying to express?