(June 3, 2016 at 3:23 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(June 3, 2016 at 3:16 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: It's an observation. Empirical evidence. You always want to see evidence, right? Well there it is staring you in the face. Have you ever observed something being caused by something that doesn't exist? Does that even make sense to you that that could happen?
No, no, no. That's not how evidence works. What the evidence shows you is that actual things can be the causes of things, there's nothing in that observation that shows that actual things are the only cause of things, which is the assertion you actually made.
And toward the end there, you're back mired in the argument from incredulity again. You might want to do something about that.
Now you're just playing with words. Fine. I'll play that game. Since the evidence shows that actual things can cause change, where is the evidence that nonexistent things can cause change? Since there is no such evidence then a rational person operates on the most reasonable premise and the conclusions that follow from it. Apparently you are not interested in following the evidence after all.