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Talking back.

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We are pleased to revive the "Talking Back" department that was so popular during the days that Robin Murray-O'Hair was the editor of this journal. "Talking Back" contained the replies of both ordinary and extraordinary Atheists to what nowadays are called FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions). Some replies could be sardonic one-liners: Q. Why are you an Atheist? A. I've read all the Bible. Other replies might take several carefully reasoned paragraphs to answer. We hope to be able to publish the responses of several different people to given questions at the same time, and so we published a partial list of popular questions in the last issue and asked readers to take a crack at one or more of them. If you would like to respond to any of those questions or to 'pet-peeve' questions that you yourself have had to answer, we would like to hear from you.

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Talking Back

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2. Prove there isn't a god.

It's not possible. But neither is it possible to prove there aren't leprechauns--in fact, its impossible to prove the non-existence of an infinite variety of imagined gods and "supernatural" creatures. By such a standard, there is no way to discriminate between a "god" claim and any arbitrary assertion. For good reason, we must impose certain requirements on any claim before we can accept it as being true, thus the burden of proof...

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