Reply #72: People don't like when you can't answer questions [View All]

[SteelPenguin]

They see it as a weakness of your argument, rather than a weakness of theirs. When an athiest/agnostic/secular humanist/what have you answers a question posed by saying "I don't know." the religious person sees it as a flaw.

The problem is that they often don't seem to realize that just because we don't know the answer to the question, doesn't mean that they have a superior argument because they claim they do.

If you took two people who had never even heard of math before, or any numbers, and asked them "What's 2+2?", then who has the better position? The person who says "The answer is 3 because this book, pastor, and family told me so." or the person who says "I don't know."

People can't grok that though. There's no comfort in that.