(May 2, 2019 at 8:44 am)madog Wrote:(May 2, 2019 at 6:02 am)Jehanne Wrote: Now, if the results had been positive, then the researches would have demonstrated a causal link between individuals uttering words and the outcomes of patients getting better or worse. Maybe you would disagree, and that's fine. For me, under such controlled conditions, atheism would have been disproven, provided that the experiment could be replicated. At that point, I, as an atheist, would renounce my atheism and become a believer, at least in a theistic God.
I think you used Richard Dawkins in a disingenuous way
It sounds to me you are a theist in waiting ... your stance appears to be that if something can't be explained you will insert a God and in particular a theistic God.
Now I'll use a previous example .....
If a magnet was a new discovery and as yet unexplained ... If a thiest or any other supernatural peddler could show you it could move certain objects you would become a theist.
If someone could demonstrate that they were capable of violating the Conservation Laws (energy, momentum and angular momentum) under controlled conditions, then, yes, I would become a theist.