(August 11, 2016 at 9:37 am)SteveII Wrote:(August 11, 2016 at 9:19 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Does it have to be a few billion? What about a couple of million? Where is your cut off, and how did you determine that number to be accurate? Anecdotes are still anecdotes, no matter their quantity. Hundreds of thousands of people also believe the Mandela Effect is caused by parallel universes sliding into one other, but the sheer quantity of lunatics who believe such nonsense does not lend the theory an ounce more credibility than if it were just one individual claiming it.
Why do I have to have a cutoff? How many apples do we have to drop to examine the properties of gravity? The fact that the same thing happens over and over (with different people over 2000 years) with reliability and predictability is empirical evidence of a cause and effect relationship. The individual ascribes the effect to salvation and God. Therefore, unless you are willing to throw out human intuition as a source of knowledge, you are left with proof of the existence of God.
Lol, sure, people reliably and predictably SAY they have a personal relationship with God without an OUNCE of measurable, demonstrable evidence to back that claim up. This is in no way empirical, and it is in no way proof of cause and effect. I think you need to read up on the basic principles of scientific research and the difference between 'correlation' and 'cause'. If you are claiming proof of cause and effect here, you better be able to back that up with a double-blind, controlled, clinical trial or two involving your god. An individual ascribing the effect to 'salvation and God' when they ALREADY believed that to begin with is blatant confirmation bias, and not scientific in any way.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
