RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
October 3, 2021 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2021 at 4:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 3, 2021 at 3:53 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:Incorrect. The vast majority of people who believe in gods do so because their parents believed in gods.(October 3, 2021 at 3:45 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Dude, ya can't just point at a pretty fish and declare it evidence of God.
Actually, I can. The appearance of design is why the vast majority of people believe in God.
Quote:If you think evolution is a valid defeater to design, you still have to rule out theistic evolution/guided evolution.If you want to assert that god guides evolution in any way... you can just point out the place where god touches the genetics. It will be manifestly apparent. That is, after all, how we know when a genetic line has been designed in a lab.
(October 3, 2021 at 4:22 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: The God hypothesis is not empirical by definition. Testability/falsifiability/explanatory power criteria can only be applied to empirical hypotheses.
The appearance of design is empirical, by definition. Get your shit together. If you want to insist that your god is hidden, that's fine - but you'll have to do without the appearance of this or that...and, if you want to insist on the appearance of this or that...that's fine too..but you'll have to do without the notion that the god hypothesis is not an empirically testable claim.
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