(October 15, 2015 at 4:26 pm)jenny1972 Wrote:(October 15, 2015 at 4:01 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Excellent question.
I was going to post something similar earlier on after she posted something to the effect, "Well, they've never been proven to be hoaxes".
Which I'm sure she has no clue what the problems with that statement are.
well if someone is assuming that something is a hoax i was wondering where that assumption comes from its a valid question . was it proven to be a hoax ? or is it a personal judgement that it must be a hoax ?
It doesn't work that way.
When an extraordinary supernatural claim is made, it is up to those making the claim to support the claim. It is not up to those that are skeptical to prove the claim false.
The default position for any supernatural claim is to disbelieve it, until it is proven true. Not to believe it, until proven false.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
