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    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 10, 2019 at 11:45 pm)Grandizer Wrote: (October 10, 2019 at 11:16 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote: If it was a testable, verifiable phenomenon that spontaneous remission occurred significantly more fr...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 11, 2019 at 12:01 am
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 10, 2019 at 10:11 pm)Grandizer Wrote: (October 10, 2019 at 8:59 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote: I'm trying to reply to the thread but can't see my posts... As for showing you more stories of miracl...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 10, 2019 at 11:16 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

I'm trying to reply to the thread but can't see my posts... As for showing you more stories of miracles, what's the point? There are many miracles that have church approval and you can Google them. ...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 10, 2019 at 8:59 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 4, 2019 at 10:33 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: (October 3, 2019 at 10:59 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote: What does this mean, that I have to be able to repeat a supernatural event under experimental controls ...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 10, 2019 at 8:58 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 4, 2019 at 10:33 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: (October 3, 2019 at 10:59 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote: What does this mean, that I have to be able to repeat a supernatural event under experimental controls ...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 10, 2019 at 8:57 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 3, 2019 at 6:43 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Your gap argument is and always will be a gap argument.  That's just the way it is.  It's not a good argument, at all...but it obviously informs you.  I ...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 3, 2019 at 10:59 pm
    Thread: Why not deism?
Post: RE: Why not deism?

(October 2, 2019 at 12:18 am)Grandizer Wrote: (October 1, 2019 at 9:12 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote: @Grandizer suggests that all logically possible worlds could be that explanation; but I think that goes ...
Inqwizitor Atheism 200 14325 October 3, 2019 at 12:38 am
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 9:59 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: That x  hasn't been proven false isn't a reason to believe in that thing, or evidence for that things existence.  Nor does it add credibility or rational...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 11:51 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 9:44 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: 26 pages in and all we have is an ad pop and an argument from ignorance. Raaa-tion-alll! Succinct, well, I'm not saying that something is true because o...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 9:50 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 9:27 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: If god isn't helpful here, Inq, then you've undercut the entire premise of rationality and ontological argument.  We could certainly agree to proceed as ...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 9:46 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 9:17 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: How do you know, given an continuous history of ever expanding knowledge base explaining every more of the hitherto inexplicable, what can not be expl...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 9:41 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
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(October 2, 2019 at 8:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: No one denies there can be truth which you can not find.   One merely denies you found the truths which you can not find.Right, but that's back to the...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 9:26 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 8:39 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: No, a "supernatural cause" actually doesn't do anything by itself.    All it does in the hands of the person who asserted it is to let that person sho...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 9:09 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 8:16 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: What you are saying is but this: Because means of clearly defined methods of truth finding that has demonstrated efficacy and  reliability does not ...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 8:52 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 7:09 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: No, belief can be rational, faith by definition is belief that is asserted without rational basis and without admission of its dubiousness because it ...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 8:31 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 6:29 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: .....exactly. :dodgy: Checkmate?  Quote:The church is really not doing well these days if it's adherents think god is reducible. "God" is not a helpful ...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 7:35 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 6:22 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: (October 2, 2019 at 6:11 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote: The possibility of supernatural causes. Miracles. This might be essentially what divides the theist from...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 6:45 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 5:42 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Unfiltered stream of consciousness?  I'm not sure what you mean. (October 2, 2019 at 5:42 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Do you now think that everything can be e...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 6:25 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 5:29 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: I never said it could. But then, if a god exists, that is outside of our natural epistemology, then I aren't I still justified in disbelieving it exist...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 6:11 pm
    Thread: Evidence for Believing
Post: RE: Evidence for Believing

(October 2, 2019 at 5:12 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: If faith be limited to known demonstrable facts, it wouldn't be faith, it would be facts.   For faith to limit itself to  hypothesis and assumption ab...
Inqwizitor Atheism 368 50441 October 2, 2019 at 5:37 pm