RE: God, Energy and Matter
September 16, 2019 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2019 at 11:34 am by Simon Moon.)
(September 15, 2019 at 12:02 pm)Lek Wrote: If someone hits me with a baseball bat, I don't need to look for scientific proof before I realize it. You might tell me I could have imagined it, but that wouldn't change the fact that I got hit by a baseball bat. Someone visiting from another country, who also got hit by a baseball bat, might think he got hit by some other kind of club, but he still got hit by a baseball bat.
If you want to have some other evidence before you would believe then go ahead and wait for it. I've got no good reason to spend my life looking for other ways to prove it's real.
Problem with this failed analogy, is if you were hit by a baseball bat, you would be able to provide evidence, that ANYONE could see. Bruises, broken bones, swelling, etc. Possibly even x-ray evidence. Maybe the bat itself with your blood on it and the fingerprints of the person you claim swung the bat.
But you're not claiming to to have been hit by a physical bat, swung by an actual human, leaving you with demonstrable injuries. You are claiming to have been hit by a magical staff, swung by a wizard, that left no demonstrable evidence, and only your "feelings" that this even took place.
So, show us evidence you have been hit by a bat...
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.
