RE: Evidence for the existence of God
January 11, 2017 at 7:30 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2017 at 7:32 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 11, 2017 at 4:01 pm)Yadayadayada Wrote: Atheists, please define "evidence".
What can be considered evidence depends on what the claim or hypothesis is.
The claim that you had lunch with a good friend of yours, requires almost no evidence. I would tend to believe that claim based on nothing more than your word. The claim that you had lunch with your friend on Mars, require drastically more evidence, that is demonstrable and falsifiable.
So first, a very coherent definition of the god, that is very specifically defined, would have to be provided, to discern what kind of evidence is needed.
I have never said there is no evidence for a god. Just drastically insufficient evidence for me to warrant belief.
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.
