(July 23, 2011 at 9:37 pm)TheCarlisle Wrote: True enough. However, you have to assume that you are delusional and/or running out of air. Let's add one thing to the scenario: if you've never read or seen the Bible, yet you are an ignorant person and an atheist (not saying anyone here is), and you hear God and he's throwing verses after verses of the Bible at you (which you all remember), how can you convince other atheists that God is real?
Ok, for argument sake I really did hear some twat preach bible quotes into my head which I would consider a violation of my person.
I wouldn't assume it was god because I only go where the evidence points and will only go for explanations that require the fewest assumptions. Which would be that I'm delusional. But if (BIG IF!) it was the impossible (god) then I can't see anyway for me to prove what happened. At all. If there is no evidence, then I've got nothing to show. Just best that I keep it to myself.
Now such a situation cannot happen because god is an extremely high improbability and based on what we know with the available evidence (or lack of) god doesn't exist. But if it did, there is no way to prove it and I would not jump to such an improbable conclusion.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.