RE: Hell
February 7, 2011 at 11:53 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2011 at 11:59 pm by Captain Scarlet.)
(February 7, 2011 at 11:25 am)Matthew Wrote:Wrong. Evidence: Electricity, penicilin, suspension bidges, radio, laser, nuclear power, genetically modified food, telecscopes, computers, television, the internal combustion engine, petrol...(February 7, 2011 at 9:05 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: When evaluating a truth claim then the best and only reliable method we have is science which relies on evidence.This is itself a truth claim, but I can conceive of no evidence that supports it. By its own lights, then, I must reject it.
all advances (whether welcommed or not) of modern society in general and are great evidence for the efficacy of the truth claims of science over....
....the effects of prayer, exorcism, miracles....which have led to no advances whatsoever and also have not been evidenced
You may have meant to say there is no proof (and not evidence) of this statement, which is true. I have only offered powerful inductive reasons to believe the statement I made, I concede that it isn't deductive. If you really believe that there is no reason to beleive such a statement, but there is reason to believe in a god then you could opt to walk the talk on this and eschew the advances of science and revert to the cures offered by a god. But when push comes to shove, when our loved ones are sick we take them to doctors and not normally to faith healers, right?
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
