RE: Mock dialogue of the Theist/Atheist discussion here.
January 10, 2016 at 4:28 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2016 at 4:30 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 10, 2016 at 4:14 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Your argument was this:
Atheists use their reason to accept all sorts of reasonable arguments for other things.
They don't accept it for God, it must be because those arguments don't work in the case of God (ie. they aren't reasonable)
This is incorrect.
The other existential claims I accept I do so based on demonstrable and falsifiable evidence, reasoned argument and valid/sound logic.
The arguments for existence of a god does not meet the above criteria.
If the existence of a god met the criteria that I use for other claims, I would accept the claim.
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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.
