RE: Evidence God Exists
October 22, 2010 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2010 at 2:41 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 22, 2010 at 7:00 am)MysterMenace Wrote:(October 22, 2010 at 5:18 am)Chuck Wrote: Anymore than an accurate description of your country, your city, your street, your house, your personal library and what you had for dinner on Christmas eve in a story about Santa Clause coming down your chimney counts as evidence of the existence of Santa Clause.
Explain why that is not evidence, without assuming beforehand that Santa Claus does not exist.
You don't need to assume anything about Santa Clause to see that accurate descriptions of your country, your city, your street, your house, your personal library and what you had for dinner on Christmas eve have anything to do with santa clause.
Such unrelated items, true or not, has zero impact on the likelihood of the truth of the Santa Clause in exactly the same way that prefacing claims of Santa Clause with the evident truth of 2+2 = 4 would nothing to the claim.
Shielding claims wth a wall of unrelated propositions is a totally dishonest and intellectually bankrupt tactic that seems to be the best many Christians can come up with the defend their "faith".