Comment Re:Apple Stores (Score 1) 636
You have missed the distinction between a weak and a strong atheist. I agree that a strong atheist requires a leap of faith. The strong atheist makes the positive assertion that "No God Exists". I am a weak atheist. Read my previous statement very carefully. It's an assertion that I see no reason to conclude a god exists. It's the opposite construction of the assertion. I have a model of reality based on my observations and observations of others. That model doesn't contain a god, because there is no reason to. My model of the world adds new things where there is reasonable weight of evidence to suggest that something needs to be added. Not adding a deity is the same as not adding elves. There is no solid reason to add either of them, so I keep it simpler without appending needless explanations.
I would go further and state that there is effectively no reason to to even waste that much time considering adding it because of the complete derth of explanatory power the god hypothesis contains. It is incumbent upon people who want to add to the rational world view to supply sufficient evidence, testing and methods of disproving their hypothesis before it is incumbent upon me to bother considering their potentially whacky ideas. God, TimeCube and the now passed rapture are all similarly valueless to a rational worldview because they assert a set of truths without sufficient proof. Provide reasonable evidence and I'll reconsider. My suspicion is that no one has because said evidence does not exist, but I accept that this is an unproovable hypothesis.