Solipsism is easy. The universality of doubt can only be a starting point. Yes you've stated that we're not 100% certain of X but also that we're not 100% certain of anything. This alone would simply put X in the same category as everything else in the entire universe. However our degrees of knowledge are not so black and white. Can we not say that though we cannot be 100% certain that Ted Bundy was a murderer we can find more reasons to believe it than to believe that the tooth fairy is real. Different claims have different qualities of evidence supporting them. The question of whether we can be 100% certain of something can be a meaningless distraction unless we build upon it to ask how reasonable it would to doubt it. How much evidence, and what quality of evidence would we need to discount in order to apply such doubt.

Yikes sorry about the typos. A mixture of iPad typing and Siri. Embarrassing.

Scientific reasoning is never 100% sure. It is always open to new evidence. Religious reasoning is 100% sure and is not open to any evidence.

When the evidence is that something is 99% in not existing it's still better to rely on the 99% than the 1% . It's 99% that you will get hit by a car by crossing the road at point A do you rely on the 1% and still cross ?

The fat thing od virus has struck again stealing your th ins.

I'm inclined to agree that you can never be sure. A part of me still ponders that our existence might be part of a failed experiment that's been stuck on a shelf somewhere, while whoever created it goes on to try again (and again and again) to see if they can get it right.

I believe there's sufficient evidence to amount to proof that there is no benevolent God. Nobody up there listening to your prayers, making sure life treats you better if you have faith and pay your respects than it does if you don't.

But the origins of the universe and life? Science needs to pull a little more out of its hat than it has so far to prove beyond doubt that these things happened naturally, without any intervention from a sentience. In the meantime, I don't feel comfortable categorically stating that there was no intelligence behind the origin of the universe and life within it. Though I stand firmly by the belief that if that intelligence exists, or ever existed, it has either died or moved on and we are no longer of consequence to it.

And yes, I know the burden of proof isn't on us to justify our lack of belief. But the burden of proof is on us if we wish to tell people that they are wrong to believe. Both sides of this argument operate as belief systems. Just ours isn't a religious one.