Jun 12 2012: More emphasis on a community surrounding a particular TEDx event, a bit like Antonella said. If we could follow a specific community and how TEDx has helped transform it and tell the stories around it. Organizers, speakers, and audience stories around an event... maybe highlight one TEDx community a month?
Mar 15 2011: Proof of what? Are you asking atheists to disprove the existence of something, of a god? No one can disprove anything. That's science.
I could say a robotic form of my mother is having tea with a robotic version of your mother orbiting Mars, and you couldn't disprove it. And yet there is as much scientific proof of this tea party as there is of a god.
Your phrase "believers believe there is a god, atheists think there isn't" is ridiculous language in the first place. It makes it sound 50/50. There either is a god, or not- 50/50 chance.
When indeed it's NOT 50/50. That's like saying "either Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield, or he didn't, 50/50". These are facts, with evidence to support them. The overwhelming evidence (99.999 etc.) says that no such supernatural creature exists. Therefore, "a god exists, a god doesn't exist" is more like 0/100.
What atheists THINK, not believe (because that's what the "a" means in "atheist"), is that you shouldn't believe something that has no evidence. In fact, belief isn't good.
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I could say a robotic form of my mother is having tea with a robotic version of your mother orbiting Mars, and you couldn't disprove it. And yet there is as much scientific proof of this tea party as there is of a god.
Your phrase "believers believe there is a god, atheists think there isn't" is ridiculous language in the first place. It makes it sound 50/50. There either is a god, or not- 50/50 chance.
When indeed it's NOT 50/50. That's like saying "either Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield, or he didn't, 50/50". These are facts, with evidence to support them. The overwhelming evidence (99.999 etc.) says that no such supernatural creature exists. Therefore, "a god exists, a god doesn't exist" is more like 0/100.
What atheists THINK, not believe (because that's what the "a" means in "atheist"), is that you shouldn't believe something that has no evidence. In fact, belief isn't good.