(November 13, 2020 at 1:19 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(November 13, 2020 at 1:08 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: This is an idiotic false analogy.
The scenario where his meal has been eaten, is a mundane situation. And the evidence required to be pretty sure that one or both of his children ate it, is also mundane.
Now we're getting somewhere. And why is it mundane, sir ? How can such trivial matters resist any attempt to give a logical proof ?
It's mundane because there are absolutely no reasons to speculate any explanations, other than purely natural ones. The kids ate it, the kids dropped it on the floor and did not want to get blamed for it so they lied, the wife ruined the dinner so she threw it away, a homeless person broke in and ate it, a stray dog snuck in and ate it, etc. That's why it is a mundane.
If the kids claimed dinner stealing pixies appeared out of thin air and ate it, that is no longer a mundane claim and requires much more evidence.
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.
