RE: Why all god claims fail.
April 14, 2016 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2016 at 4:51 pm by Brian37.)
(April 14, 2016 at 4:36 pm)Ignorant Wrote:(April 14, 2016 at 3:41 pm)Brian37 Wrote: EVOLUTION, neurological pathways, we can prove they exist. And when we gap fill we create those pathways even with false beliefs. We know both by measuring the brain LITERALLY in it's electro activity and chemistry the parts of the brain that light up when we think about what we think are positive things, and we know just like a phantom pain an amputee might feel, that "feeling" can be a totally false experience and yet still feel very real.
God belief is no different than convincing a kid Santa is real. If you want to believe it badly enough, no matter how false, you will.
Now it is still NOT up to me to prove shit, so get your god claim in a lab or shut up, either way it is still not up to me to do your homework for you.
All he asked for was a citation for a scientific paper/scientific text/scientific anything which he could use to educate himself about the things you mention here. He's trying to do his homework. Care to help him out by pointing in the direction of the scientific evidence? If not, are you expecting him to just take you on authority?
I gave him the sources, and still even with those sources, both Dawkins and the Late Stenger would also say what any sane person should say. You make a claim, it is up to you to prove it, it is still not up to them, or me to take their pet god claim into a lab, it is their job. Nobody ever wants to take a god claim into a lab because they all know they wont get anywhere with it.
EVOLUTION is already telling us that our god claims are merely primitive gap filling and are done out of ignorance. Like Dawkins said, the moth mistaking the light bulb for moonlight. I cannot dumb it down any further for them. It literally is a false perception.