RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
August 15, 2019 at 2:59 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2019 at 3:01 pm by Simon Moon.)
(August 15, 2019 at 12:44 pm)Lek Wrote: I don't want to beat a dead horse, so I'll say this and leave it alone. I don't call the testimony of three different people who I know well a flawed argument or bad evidence - especially since each saw the same thing at different times. This is in addition to other people who I knew who testified to to similar or other supernatural experiences. If a ghost is not a natural phenomenon, then science doesn't necessarily have the means to determine their existence through scientific processes. Why limit yourself to only one avenue to determining the truth? I respect the fact that you don't believe it, but I don't limit myself to natural science in my search for truth.
Fine.
But maybe you should read up on how easy it is for our senses to be fooled, in big ways. Or how easy it is for one person, to influence what another person reports they are experiencing.
Or how one's memories are influenced, after the fact, by someone else's report of the incident.
After all, over 1 million people sincerely believe they were at Woodstock, yet, there were about 400,000 people there.
How would you go about figuring out, if your other method for your search for the truth, is reliable?
Because, it sure seems to me, that your method, leads you and 2 billion other Christians to Christianity, 1.5 billion Muslims to Islam, and 1.1 billion Hindus to Hinduism. If the same method can lead the majority of people, to different (and mutually exclusive beliefs), it is not reliable, definitially.
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.
