RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 19, 2015 at 10:20 am
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2015 at 10:22 am by Crossless2.0.)
athrock wrote:
In the same way, different people hear the evidence and arguments made by the defense attorneys for God (commonly referred to as evangelists and apologists) with various filters in place, and this obviously affects their reactions to that evidence and those arguments.
Which group would you say have the most filters and bias through which they view this alleged evidence: the skeptics or the believers? For what it's worth, every believer I've ever personally known -- so far as I can tell -- arrived at belief for reasons that had nothing to do with apologists' arguments. The pseudo-philosophy they cling to is always post hoc rationalization to lend intellectual respectability to beliefs they accepted for emotional reasons.
In the same way, different people hear the evidence and arguments made by the defense attorneys for God (commonly referred to as evangelists and apologists) with various filters in place, and this obviously affects their reactions to that evidence and those arguments.
Which group would you say have the most filters and bias through which they view this alleged evidence: the skeptics or the believers? For what it's worth, every believer I've ever personally known -- so far as I can tell -- arrived at belief for reasons that had nothing to do with apologists' arguments. The pseudo-philosophy they cling to is always post hoc rationalization to lend intellectual respectability to beliefs they accepted for emotional reasons.
