RE: Atheists don't realize asking for evidence of God is a strawman
November 9, 2017 at 2:48 pm
(November 9, 2017 at 2:43 pm)pool the matey Wrote: I gave an example for why subjecting everything and anything to scientific scrutiny is a silly concept. Because then you'll have to research about everything like Harry Potter and stuff in the comic books.
Only if a person makes a claim that those books make existential claims about reality, pool - and the burden is on the person making the former claim.
(November 9, 2017 at 2:43 pm)pool the matey Wrote: It only makes sense to subject something that claims that it can withstand scientific scrutiny to scientific scrutiny because if you still subject something that doesn't claim that it can withstand scientific scrutiny to scientific scrutiny and you get the result that it cannot withstand scientific scrutiny then what did you achieve? You achieved nothing because guess what you proved something they NEVER claimed! It's meaningless. My point is that context matters, a religious work should only be criticized within the religious ground and comic books should only be criticized within their ground and harry potter movies only criticized within only the ground they cover....
I would agree with you, right up to the point where those religious works make existential claims about reality. If such claims aren't evidently true (that is, if evidence is not provided), then the truth values of those existential claims cannot be determined.
Your point is nonsense.
