RE: Can a lack of evidence be considered proof?
August 21, 2016 at 8:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2016 at 8:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 21, 2016 at 5:56 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I think with unfalsifiable topics like god, nobody can give us conclusive proof."God" is not an unfalsifiable topic.
What's left? Anecdotes, subjective evidence?
Quote:Ths is why theists love putting god in any dark gap of science.They like to do that because you let them do it, and they worked hard to prepare that ground for the last few centuries...by calling god an unfalsifiable topic, for example. It's pretty much the only tool left in their box and it's only there insomuch as you allow it to be.
Not so much to convince atheists, but because they are more than happy with the lack of proof of his non existence.
This way, no one can touch their delicate beliefs and can sleep comfortably at night.
Quote:To atheists, lack of evidence is why most agnostics don't believe.I'm not one of those. We have -more- than enough evidence with regards to the various gods proposed to -positively- discard the god hypothesis for what it is. It's been thoroughly discredited.
But for many theists, it's the only reason they do believe.
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