(December 31, 2019 at 3:23 pm)Lek Wrote: I think you're right. It does seem true that we have no scientific proof for the existence of the supernatural.By which you mean none of any sort for any of it. The plural of anecdote is not data.
(December 31, 2019 at 3:23 pm)Lek Wrote: There is overwhelming testimony concerning the existence of God and the supernatural,No, there are a ton of mutually exclusive claims and bugger all evidence.
(December 31, 2019 at 3:23 pm)Lek Wrote: but it is not provable by natural means.Nor by any other means.
(December 31, 2019 at 3:23 pm)Lek Wrote: After studying the history of humankind and the testimonies of so many who have experienced God and the supernatural, I firmly believe that it's something that God impresses on us by whatever means he determines to use.Wait, what? Your god is so incompetent that he/she/it/housecat cannot figure out how to show itself to exist? Really?
(December 31, 2019 at 3:23 pm)Lek Wrote: I could study science until there's nothing more to learn from itBaloney. That is impossible. If science knew everything it would just stop. And it hasn't.
(December 31, 2019 at 3:23 pm)Lek Wrote: and not be able to find any evidence that would disprove that connection God has built between himself and those who experience him.Who, exactly, has experienced him? I was raised RCC. No stupid god showed up no matter how hard I believed.
(December 31, 2019 at 3:23 pm)Lek Wrote: So I just can't make myself not believe what God has put in me.You, and your parents, and your church put it in you. Nobody else. Andrea Yates murdered her five children so that they would be guaranteed to go directly to heaven. She sacrificed herself to eternal damnation willingly for the sake of her children. That is where your religious thinking leads.
(December 31, 2019 at 3:23 pm)Lek Wrote: Maybe you'll agree with me about this. If God truly exists, and wants us to know, he will let us know eventually, and vice versa.No. What is the prick waiting for?