(August 9, 2018 at 11:17 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: As to Santa, it seems that you are coming to a conclusion before you examined any evidence, not because of it. You have to deny the evidence a priori.
Actually unbiased position would be to start from preposition that there is no reason that Santa or God exist; while biased people start from conclusion that there is god and then try to "explain" everything with that biased notion.
(August 9, 2018 at 11:17 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Perhaps, scientists might not agree, but it is a matter of logic, not science (which only shows that they need some philosophy courses.
Yeah like Empedocles, Heraclitus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Susan Neiman, Arthur Schopenhauer, Noam Chomski, Sam Harris, Eric Hoffer etc.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
