RE: Evidence for Believing
October 4, 2019 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2019 at 3:42 pm by Simon Moon.)
(October 4, 2019 at 2:25 pm)Grandizer Wrote: A much better way to demonstrate God's [probable] existence would perhaps be:
Having a significantly large number of cases whereby spontaneous remissions for MS occur immediately after praying to God for healing AND comparatively small number of cases whereby spontaneous remissions for MS occur but not after praying to God (sample size of attempts is large enough, of course) AND scientists aren't able to come up with any plausible naturalistic explanations
Well, I am not sure how one would get from; spontaneous remissions after praying at a greater rate, to, therefore god exists. But at least there would a there, there to at least study.
And the lack of a naturalistic explanation, does not in itself, give any more credence to a supernatural explanation.
As of now, there is zero statistical results to look at, that are anything special. Where is the evidence that Christians or Catholics have spontaneous remissions, or 'miracle healings' at a greater rate than Jews, Muslims, Hindus or non believers?
That at least would be interesting.
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.