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Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
(November 10, 2015 at 11:43 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:
(November 10, 2015 at 9:13 pm)bennyboy Wrote: So when I don't apply the same standards to "It's raining today" as I do to "We don't know what made the universe, therefore Sky Daddy," I'm moving goalposts, huh?

Despite the straw man here, I believe that you are making more assumptions in accepting the claim it is raining outside or you may have other reasons for not perusing it as persistently as other claims.  Given the same circumstances though you do not have any more or less reason to believe.

Sure I do.  One is a particular instance of something I already know about the world-- that it sometimes rains.  I only have to determine whether you are telling the truth.

The God claim is entirely different.  It consists of something that I do not know about the world.  And even if I consider you a truthful person, I have to determine whether you have the willingness and capacity to accurately assess the source of your experiences.  Given that God is meant to be immaterial, and that our senses are purely to deal with material substances, then I'd be highly suspicious, therefore, that despite your experiences being powerful ones, you've made a serious mistake in attributing them to an immaterial Sky Daddy.
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RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence - by bennyboy - November 11, 2015 at 7:19 am

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