(August 25, 2017 at 8:10 pm)Astonished Wrote: Here's how he'd try to weasel out of that; because of his claim that there's such a thing as historical science, which can't be relied on because 'were you there', he'll say that we can use observational science (the only kind there is) to determine that humans don't live long enough to have been there, or some such bullshit. But then of course he's got the cumbersome difficulty of explaining away mythical figures like Methuselah and Noah who lived to be over 500 each.
Yes, but you see I was there. So he's either got to accept my testimony, ask for evidence (which demonstrates an understanding of the burden of proof - a sword which cuts him too), or dismiss me as a crank (which again cuts him just as much). No matter what objection he raises, there's always a rationalisation out of his own playbook to counter it.
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.'