(December 3, 2015 at 9:50 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 2, 2015 at 6:37 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: No amount of bad evidence, for sure. And that is all that has been presented by you, and every other Christian I've ever heard present their case.
Ancient texts, flawed philosophical arguments, anecdotal personal experiences are not convincing because they are bad evidence.
Atheism is not a choice. It is the result of correctly applied skepticism.
I think he is referring to the type of people who say they would not believe in God even if He appeared before them and performed miracles, etc. He is correct. I have seen people here say that.
I think the general position is that we would believe in such a thing - we would have no choice - but that we'd likely still not be convinced it was a god. We most certainly wouldn't worship it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
