RE: Do you wish there's a god?
April 3, 2019 at 9:26 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2019 at 9:27 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(April 3, 2019 at 8:12 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(April 3, 2019 at 7:51 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: The usual reason people say they are atheists is that they've seen no convincing evidence for the kind of God typically described by theists. They also often maintain that the standard philosophical arguments are flawed or inconclusive, especially in regards to the kind of God typically described. All are good reasons to lack belief.
Agreed.
And I think that if Christians hold up a hundred sentences and say, "this is my evidence," and we say, "nope, that's NOT good evidence," then it's clear we have made a judgment.
And while we may invoke the letter of the law and chant "burden of proof burden of proof," nonetheless if we want to have a grown-up good-faith conversation, we still ought to articulate why we deem that "evidence" to be bad.
Ahh...So frustrating. If only there were some sort of standardization or hierarchy that we could use to make determinations about the quality of evidence offered. Think of what we could accomplish with a tool like that!
Oh, wait.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
