(August 2, 2024 at 4:32 am)Sheldon Wrote: Now I keep asking questions, and you keep ignoring them, while I promptly and honestly answer yours, so FYI, I shall not be answering another of your questions until you make some effort to answer mine that you've ignored. Debate requires reciprocity, and I am starting to feel a little like I'm being preached at, as you make claims, then when I address them, you either move on to new ones ignoring what I've said, or focus on minutia, like the numbers debate, which was tangential to evidencing a deity. Since you seem to be trying to make its existence an unfalsifiable concept. I explained my views on such ideas, and you ignored that completely.
That's not the way I see it, obviously, but I agree that we approach these things very differently. So differently that it would require a lot more patience and careful working-out to have any kind of productive conversation.
There are things which seem self-evident and undeniable to you about which I am much less convinced. I don't really want to go on to the theological part of the discussion until I've addressed the priors on which you are making your judgments.
But I suspect this is not what you want to work on, so I certainly won't insist.
Your beliefs are much closer to the consensus on this forum than mine are, so you will do well with other people here, I'm pretty sure. Good luck to you.
