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Skepticism

Skepticism cat is for things like Cartesian Skepticism or Global skepticism. Not Scienific skepticism. Even if you believe that is what cat is for doesnt it still make sense to be more specific?Apollo The Logician (talk) 09:23, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Skepticism (American English) or scepticism (British English) is generally any questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief. It is often directed at domains, such as morality (moral skepticism), religion (skepticism about the existence of God), or knowledge (skepticism about the possibility of knowledge, or of certainty). Formally, skepticism as a topic occurs in the context of philosophy, particularly epistemology, although it can be applied to any topic such as politics, religion, and pseudoscience.

Cartesian skepticism, Scientific skepticism, etc., are indeed more specific sub-categories related to Skepticism, as are Pyrrhonism, Agnosticism, Atheism, etc. Specificity in categorizing can be a good thing when the article is about a very narrow subject, but a subject such as atheism - which entails many of the subcategories of Category:Skepticism - should not be pigeonholed into just one arbitrarily selected subcategory when many are equally applicable. (See WP:DIFFUSE for more information on this.) Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 16:49, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Xenophrenic on this. Atheism fits into many flavors of skepticism and so I prefer to more generic categorization. -- Scjessey (talk) 18:43, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How do I add www.facebook.com/groups/Atheists to the page?

There is no edit button. Did some idiot forget to add one? The facebook atheists group http://www.facebook.com/groups/Atheists is an awesome source of recent news and should be included within the external links section. Can somebody please take care of this. I saw some errors on the page which also needed attention but like I said some twit forgot to add an edit button so maybe one of you could bring this to the attention of the admins. Thanks. 1.128.97.1 (talk) 00:10, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The page is semi-protected which prevents unregistered users from editing the page directly, but you can make edit requests here. Also, external websites like Facebook that require registration goes against the current content guidelines, see WP:ELREG. --Modocc (talk) 00:50, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

moved to correct part of page. Please put new text under old text, as is required in the guidelines at the top of this talk page. There's no need to add Facebook links to any Wikipedia page. wp:el, as mentioned above is a guide to what information is suitable for inclusion in the external links section. I can see from your talk page that similar edits you have made have been reverted by bots. Thanks for your contributions, but please take a moment to familiarize yourself with some basic wp practices and create an account for a wider range of editing options and resources. Many thanks Edaham (talk) 01:03, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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@Just plain Bill:, I added this to the article:-

Some people have tried to prove that Gods exist.^[1]^[2] In 1801, while serving as the Collector of Bellary, Thomas Munro is believed to have come across an apparition of Raghavendra Swami.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

^ Martin, Sean (Jan 23, 2017). "Scientists use mathematical calculations to PROVE the existence of God". Express. Retrieved 2017-06-28.

^ Humphreys, Joe (Jan 16, 2017). "Unthinkable: The Islamic thinker who 'proved' God exist". Irish Times. Retrieved 2017-06-28.

^ Proceedings - Indian History Congress. 1945. p. 331.

^ Giriraj Shah (1999). Saints, gurus and mystics of India, Volume 2. Cosmo Publications. p. 473. ISBN 8170208564, ISBN 978-81-7020-856-3.

^ The Hindu staff 2002.

^ "Miracles performed by Guru Raghavendra". Retrieved 29 April 2017.

as the previous sentences were, "Atheism is a more parsimonious position than theism and is the position in which everyone is born; therefore it has been argued that the burden of proof lies not on the atheist to disprove the existence of God but on the theist to provide a rationale for theism.[24][1] However, others have disagreed with the view of being born into such a position.[25]"

What is wrong with what I added (I am open to discussions)?—Dona-Hue (talk) 21:59, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That paragraph in the lead section concerns arguments for atheism, and is not the place to mention supposed supernatural observations, or references to "proofs" in news articles on Avicenna or Gödel. Just plain Bill (talk) 22:23, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Drift in History of Atheism

I'd like to point editors to recent changes in History of atheism. I've started a discussion at Talk:History of atheism#Recent changes - July 2017. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:30, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Martin, Sean (Jan 23, 2017). "Scientists use mathematical calculations to PROVE the existence of God". Express. Retrieved 2017-06-28.

[2] Humphreys, Joe (Jan 16, 2017). "Unthinkable: The Islamic thinker who 'proved' God exist". Irish Times. Retrieved 2017-06-28.

[historycongressp331-3] Proceedings - Indian History Congress. 1945. p. 331.

[saintsp473-4] Giriraj Shah (1999). Saints, gurus and mystics of India, Volume 2. Cosmo Publications. p. 473. ISBN 8170208564, ISBN 978-81-7020-856-3.

[FOOTNOTEThe_Hindu_staff2002-5] The Hindu staff 2002.

[6] "Miracles performed by Guru Raghavendra". Retrieved 29 April 2017.

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