This all revolves around you wanting to apply the same sort of skepticism to both dinosaurs and god. That's what I've been doing all along. There is no special pleading, at least in my case. I won't speak for anyone else - I'm sure they'll be happy to tell you to take your thumb and shove it up your ass.
I accept dinosaurs because there is concrete evidence that we have already discussed. I do not accept god, or any divine being, for the same reason I don't accept bigfoot, or leprechauns, or the Dagda. No one has brought up tangible, credible evidence of any of them.
You know what would make me "believe" in god? Show me a burning bush that isn't consumed by the flame with a voice speaking out of it. Give me a river that we knew was water turned within minutes (I'll give god that long) to blood. Give me these "miracles" spoken of in the bible that DO NOT HAPPEN OUTSIDE OF IT. I need evidence. Not stories.
There is no separation of skepticism. I'm skeptical of things people wrap in science-y terminology because I haven't been shown good evidence in support of it. Hell, I'm skeptical of things my friends say most of the time.
You come back to me with evidence for your god, and I will treat it the same way I treat dinosaurs, and Nessie. Dinos get a "pass" because we have evidence. Nessie gets a fart in her general direction because we don't. In the case of your god, I don't even have the time of day, and never have.
So fuck you very much - you've basically called a good swathe of us dishonest simply because we DID treat your god the same way we treat dinosaurs. I don't care if you want to back-pedal and say you were just 'playing' or not.
You can make as many logical arguments as you want that the sun doesn't shine or that grass ain't green and that sun will still be there when the earth turns and the grass will still have chlorophyll in it. Do the same about your god and dinosaurs. It won't make a lick of difference. Logic is a good servant, but a bad bedfellow. Quit fucking it.
I accept dinosaurs because there is concrete evidence that we have already discussed. I do not accept god, or any divine being, for the same reason I don't accept bigfoot, or leprechauns, or the Dagda. No one has brought up tangible, credible evidence of any of them.
You know what would make me "believe" in god? Show me a burning bush that isn't consumed by the flame with a voice speaking out of it. Give me a river that we knew was water turned within minutes (I'll give god that long) to blood. Give me these "miracles" spoken of in the bible that DO NOT HAPPEN OUTSIDE OF IT. I need evidence. Not stories.
There is no separation of skepticism. I'm skeptical of things people wrap in science-y terminology because I haven't been shown good evidence in support of it. Hell, I'm skeptical of things my friends say most of the time.
You come back to me with evidence for your god, and I will treat it the same way I treat dinosaurs, and Nessie. Dinos get a "pass" because we have evidence. Nessie gets a fart in her general direction because we don't. In the case of your god, I don't even have the time of day, and never have.
So fuck you very much - you've basically called a good swathe of us dishonest simply because we DID treat your god the same way we treat dinosaurs. I don't care if you want to back-pedal and say you were just 'playing' or not.
You can make as many logical arguments as you want that the sun doesn't shine or that grass ain't green and that sun will still be there when the earth turns and the grass will still have chlorophyll in it. Do the same about your god and dinosaurs. It won't make a lick of difference. Logic is a good servant, but a bad bedfellow. Quit fucking it.
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