(August 10, 2017 at 12:00 pm)pabsta Wrote: But what people in this forum are doing is taking the situation a step further. Because you don't believe something extraordinary happened with the sun, you therefore to logically conclude that NOTHING happened at all.
It's called parsimony. We have to eliminate all other mundane possibilities before leaping to nail ourselves to intractable magic ones. Cart/horse, remember?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
