RE: Perhaps none of us know the truth
February 28, 2018 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2018 at 6:41 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 28, 2018 at 6:06 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: There are certain things we do widely agree upon as human beings such as the idea that, if you drink poison, that would be lethal to you. There is no disagreement about that. So, we know this is a fact. But then there are things that we just argue and debate about. One side thinks they know the truth and the other side thinks they know the truth.
My position, and the position of skeptics, and most atheists, is NOT that we know there is no afterlife. The Skeptic position is that the evidence for an after life is drastically insufficient to support the claim.
In other words, I don't claim to know, with absolute certainty, that there is no afterlife. My position is that the claim that there is an afterlife has not met its burden of proof.
My position is not dogmatic, it is provisional. As long as the claim that there is an afterlife fails to meet its burden of proof, I will remain a disbeliever in the afterlife.
Quote: But perhaps none of them know the truth and they just think they do. An example would be debates between believers in the afterlife and people who think this is the one and only life we have. There is much claimed evidence for the afterlife, but, at the same time, skeptics would reject such claimed evidence and they would claim that they instead have all the evidence to support the idea that this is the one and only life we have.
If the evidence for the afterlife approached the level and type of evidence that, some poisons are lethal, I would be a believer in the afterlife.
My mind is opened to the possibility of an afterlife, all that it would take to convince me, is demonstrable, repeatable and falsifiable evidence, and reasoned argument to support the claim.
Got any?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
