RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
October 17, 2018 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2018 at 11:16 pm by RoadRunner79.)
(October 17, 2018 at 10:58 pm)Rahn127 Wrote:(October 17, 2018 at 10:23 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: It seems that you are asking if there is good evidence, then would I change my preconceptions, and believe something that I didn’t previously. The answer is yes. If you are asking if I think that testimony can be good and sufficient evidence for a justified belief (or change in one) then the answer is yes. How your story fits into that, I don’t know.... it really lacks details.
Do you disagree?
If so why?
I disagree
When we can't verify the truth or accuracy of a story, especially a story that makes an extraordinary claim, then we cannot justify believing the story.
The story itself cannot be verified to be true.
The story is not evidence. The story is the claim.
Why would you want to believe a story in which you can't verify it's truthfulness ?
We shouldn't believe extraordinary stories until we have a good reason to justify belief.
I don't believe in Bigfoot. I don't believe in the Loch Ness monster. I don't believe in werewolves or vampires or demons or angels.
I've read lots of stories about them and testimony from people who say they have seen these things, but there is no evidence that they exist.
I'm sorry, a story isn't enough.
We have a word that describes people who believe things without a doubt based on nothing more than a story.
That word is gullibility.
Don’t you use evidence to verify a story? If you have good and sufficient evidence, then would that make you the unreasonable one to deny it. I’m skeptical if there is a single item of evidence, but when multiple independant lines of evidence point to a conclusion, and then I believe the evidence of anothers personal feelings or disbelief. I would differentiate that the evidence is what a person testifies to, as having seen or experienced, and not necessarily the conclusion. I also think that one needs to give good reason, if they are promoting a conspiracy theory, or that multiple pieces of evidence somehow all point to the wrong conclusion.
There is no justification to slide the scale and require a different standard above reasonable evidence.
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. - Alexander Vilenkin
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If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther