RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
July 26, 2017 at 5:45 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2017 at 5:52 pm by Foxaèr.)
(July 26, 2017 at 2:46 pm)SteveII Wrote: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
Extraordinary claims require evidence period.
The truth is that the bible is as evidential for the existence of god as "Twas the night before Christmas" is evidential for the existence of Santa Clause.
If any theist had any real evidence for the existence of god, religious faith would not be needed. The fact that theists rely solely on religious faith to make a positive claim regarding god's existence points to the factual truth that there simply is no evidence for god's existence.
You seem to be illogically hung up on the fact that the claim "god does not exist" is an extraordinary claim. It is not an extraordinary claim any more than "Santa Clause does not exist" is an extraordinary claim.
The extraordinary claim is that which falsely posits god (or Santa Clause) as real, for from a logical perspective there is nothing in existence to present god (or Santa Clause) as having any real existence outside of a religious (Christmas) fairy tale.
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