(March 6, 2017 at 6:47 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Yes, finding the Christian god is so simple, that the majority of theists find a different god or gods. Nice planning there, Yahweh.
Quote:2. Did you try to find the answers to these supposed hurdles? There are so few objections to Christianity that have not been answered over and over for thousands of years.
Sure did. They are far from convincing to anyone not looking to have their confirmation bias reinforced. Most are blatantly fallacious.
Apologists from other religions have similar 'answers' to the hurdles of buying into their religions.
Quote:3. That is just a theory you could not possibly know is true or ever have a hope of testing (non-falsifiable).
There are 1000's of experimental evidence that supports this.
Quote:4. The very existence of the natural world is evidence.
Circular logic.
"God created the natural world. The natural world exists. Therefore, it is proof that god created the natural world".
Nicely played sir, nicely played!
Quote:5. What is evidence of God existing? Miracles? There is a whole catalog of them in the NT. Nothing circular there.
Texts written by ancient, superstitious tribesmen that include some miracle stories is not evidence.
The NT is THE claim, it is not evidence.
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2. It is hard to address sweeping generalities. How about a couple that really got you.
3. You said: "Our pattern seeking and exaggerated agency detection superimposes gods over the natural world." How has that been studied?
4. Nope. That is not my argument. My argument would be that there has to be a first cause of the universe OR what is the explanation that the universe is mind-boggling fine-tuned for life, etc. Not circular.
5. Nope again. The NT, within the same time period, catalogs the fact that there existed churches prior to Paul writing his letters that believed the core contents of the NT. These facts independently attest that the later gospels contain beliefs already in existence prior to the writing of the gospels. Further, document/linquistic studies confirm that the gospels relied on even earlier writings/notes/testimony. All surviving evidence for anything that all will be in writing. To use your logic that writing was not evidence, you would have to dismiss all ancient history.
