(February 18, 2022 at 1:19 am)Belacqua Wrote:(February 18, 2022 at 12:33 am)Foxaire Wrote: When it comes to theistic philosophy, the burden of proof should only lie with the one making the positive claim of existence.
Have you ever seen a god? Can this god be experienced via any of the five senses. Is there an empirical way of showing this god exists?
The simple answer is no.
Therefore, realizing the god concept is as an imaginative idea as a unicorn should be all too apparent. And that should be the end. No amount of apologetics or philosophizing is going to make god a reality.
Here you are giving your reasons for rejecting the claim that God exists.
The fact that (according to you) it has never been seen, experienced via the senses, or known empirically, is your counter evidence -- the reason you put forward as sufficient to deny the claim. (Actually you are saying the same thing three times, but it still constitutes a reason.) So you are not just saying that the burden of proof is on the believer -- you are arguing back. This is what I think we should all do.
That's fine, but many of us place God in the same category as the FSM.
