(January 12, 2017 at 10:07 am)Yadayadayada Wrote: I couldn't really find an answer in all of your drivel Esquilax. Again the question is: What do you consider evidence for the existence of God?
Hmm, so you weren't paying attention. Alright, slower this time:
I'd consider the same things as I would for any other thing. Think of what it'd take to convince a reasonable person that you had, say, a specific kind of coin in your pocket. You'd just take it out and show it, right? That'd do. Or, hell, you might just jingle it against your keys in your pocket, that might do it. Direct observation or some means of consistently detecting it would do just fine; it's not even a high bar of evidence. It's extremely low.
What I won't take, for a supernatural claim that contradicts a lot of what we know to be true about reality, is a bunch of pseudo-scientific or philosophical arguments about why such a being must exist. A claim like that demands higher levels of evidence than waffle. I also won't accept any argument portending to show that god is the best explanation for this or for that, which I believe you alluded to earlier, unless that same argument begins with well supported and verifiable calculations showing the probability of a god versus other explanations, something that's curiously always lacking in those sorts of arguments. You cannot show the most probable answer without a calculation of that probability, after all.
I think we're dancing around the real issue here, though, which is that your god cannot supply that sort of evidence. The god as described in the bible has a whole lot of lifting to do overturning very basic things we know to be true about physical reality before that point, and I don't think you or any other theist is up to that.
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