RE: Atheists don't realize asking for evidence of God is a strawman
November 9, 2017 at 3:21 pm
(November 9, 2017 at 1:35 pm)pool the matey Wrote:The Gentleman Bastard Wrote:The real strawman here is saying that only scientific claims require evidence. Any positive claim requires evidence. While some claims may require a trivial amount of evidence, others have a much higher bar.
I'm not saying "only scientific claims require evidence" (it's part of what I'm saying but it's not the whole thing)
This a TLDR of my argument:
Quote:So my argument is this:
* Only scientific works or works that claim that they can withstand scientific scrutiny can be subject to scientific scrutiny.
* Bible doesn't claim it's a scientific work nor does it claim that it can withstand scientific scrutiny.
* So if someone asks for scientific evidence for God it also carries a implicit claim that Bible has claimed it is a scientific work or that it can withstand scientific scrutiny. This implicit claim is what I called the straw.
Your argument fails because we're not asking for scientific evidence. We're asking for any evidence at all. Something no theist has been able to provide.
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