(March 10, 2017 at 12:15 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 10, 2017 at 11:15 am)AceBoogie Wrote: You people have been shouting and screaming about fairies at the bottom of the garden for the past god knows how many years... Then telling us that we have the burden of proving you wrong. Goddam, you're like little petulant children shouting, "Yeah, but you cannot DISPROVE god's existence!"
Not exactly. We are saying that the proposition "God exists' is the most parsimonious explanation that accounts for the most observable facts about reality.
By trying to understand reality in a parsimonious manner, is it possible that this way of thinking can cause people to stay within their current thought processes and be prone to confirmation bias via looking for things that support their current way of thinking rather than finding ways to change their way of thinking in order to fit with reality and the observable facts in it?
In addition, as a theist, how do you know that what is being attributed to God today won't be discovered to be the result of some occurrence in reality (unrelated to god), which can be understood and explained via reason and science?
