RE: street epistemology
December 25, 2015 at 7:54 pm
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2015 at 7:57 pm by Simon Moon.)
(December 25, 2015 at 5:11 pm)Delicate Wrote: They present what they believe is evidence.
And you know it's not. Right?
How do you know it's not good evidence?
It is not that tough to determine good from bad evidence.
To start with, evidence that is not demonstrable, repeatable, verifiable and falsifiable, is bad evidence.
For example; anyone, from any culture or religious belief can perform experiments to measure the speed of light, and they will all (if they do the experiment correctly) get the same results.
With god claims, there is nothing even similar that can be used to get repeatable, verifiable and falsifiable results. Muslims get Islam based results, Christians get Christian results, Hindus get Hindu based results, etc. No single religion or god belief withstands the "outsider test" to determine their truthfulness.
Because I'm sure, when it comes to other supernatural claims (alien abductions, bigfoot, ancient aliens, etc), you use this method of determining whether you believe the claim. What keeps you from believing in alien abductions (assuming you don't)? If you are like the vast majority, it is probably because there is insufficient demonstrable, repeatable, verifiable and falsifiable evidence to support the claim.
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.
