To the Atheist members of vgchartz

[DanneSandin]

WereKitten said:

Jay520 said:
People aren't born with any philosophical beliefs.
Belief in God is a philosophical belief.
People are born without a belief in God.
Atheism is the lack of belief in God.
Thus, people are born atheists.
Atheism is the default position for everyone.

That might not be necessarily true, even from a strictly logical and scientific point of view.

In some sense we are born with "beliefs" ingrained in our brain, because having some basic tool for knowledge proved useful and was selected in Darwinian terms. For example we basically are all born empiricists, and we basically by default believe that tomorrow the world will work by the same basic rules as today.

But since atheism is the lack of belief in a god, we're all born atheists - even if we have other beliefs/understandings from the day we are born. And the question could be asked if we believe from our first breaths that the sun will rise tomorrow, or if that is an observation we make for years on end and therefore come to the conclusion that it'll rise tomorrow as well.