A question to all atheists!
January 29, 2017 at 8:57 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2017 at 9:23 am by LadyForCamus.)
Right. Unless he is asserting that his hypothetical in the OP is true, then it's not actually a claim, and no one should feel obligated to draw any kind of conclusion regarding its likelihood.
Does a juror vote guilty/innocent? Or simply, guilty/not guilty? If the prosecution fails to put forth a convincing, evidentially supported case, that doesn't mean that I, as a juror, necessarily believe the defendant is innocent. It just means I haven't been presented with enough evidence to convince me he's guilty.
(January 28, 2017 at 8:39 pm)Gestas Wrote:(January 28, 2017 at 8:34 pm)Jesster Wrote: Intellectual honesty is more important to me than excitement. I'm not going to make things up just to add interesting content to an answer. That's how we get woo.
You're free to say you don't know, but I guess I find it peculiar that you pick now to say "I don't know". Technically, you could say you don't know for every question. Is there anything that anyone can know with 100% certainty? I presume that's what you mean by saying "I don't know". Perhaps I'm wrong but I don't think there are many atheists who would say they're 100% certain that gods do not exist, yet, they're atheists. Because they don't need to show that they're 100% certain. They just need to show that atheism is more plausible.
Likewise, I'm just asking for what you think the most plausible answer is to the question found in my original post. But if you still want to say "I don't know" then that's fine too.
Does a juror vote guilty/innocent? Or simply, guilty/not guilty? If the prosecution fails to put forth a convincing, evidentially supported case, that doesn't mean that I, as a juror, necessarily believe the defendant is innocent. It just means I haven't been presented with enough evidence to convince me he's guilty.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
