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Originally Posted by Jibninjas
I person A thinks of a number between 1 and 10 and asks person B and C to guess and person B says the number is 3 and person C says that person be is wrong, who is closer to the truth? Is person B wrong?
In the absence of any evidence, it is wrong for B to assume that the number is 3. A belief is not a guess. A belief is the assumption that something is true. In this case, the theist believes it is 3. (S)he actually thinks that it is 3 and not something else. This is different from guessing weather or not it is 3. The atheist does not believe that the number is 3. That is, (s)he does not claim that it is true that it is 3. But this is not the same as believing that it is
not three. The atheist would be justified in thinking that the theist was wrong for asserting that it is 3, because the theist has no evidence that it is. The atheist is not asserting that it is 3, but is also not asserting that it is not 3. Just that it is wrong to assume it is 3 and not another number.