(March 17, 2016 at 4:41 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(March 17, 2016 at 3:36 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Without appealing to the lack of a natural explanation for one or more observations of the real world, how did you determine that the supernatural had a positive likelihood?
Oooo... I can answer that! "Sloppy thinking."
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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.