(December 22, 2017 at 4:00 am)Starhunter Wrote: I'll give you another example to make the point, which wasn't about whether Aboriginal trackers had access to supernatural powers,
but to show that just because something cannot be percieved does not mean it doesn't exist.
I'm not going to chase your herring, so I'll just say that you're completely off the point. Nobody's saying that something which can't be perceived doesn't exist; simply that without any indication that a thing might exist, it's irrational to posit the existence of one. People who suggested the existence of the thing that would turn out to be the Higgs boson before there was a reason to suspect it would still have been guessing. They merely proved to be accurate.
That's my stance on the proposition of gods. Compound that with the logical and linguistic acrobatics that are generally offered in lieu of evidence, multiplied by all the excuses for why we shouldn't even expect evidence, and you start to get a handle on the scale of the problem.
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.'
