(May 6, 2025 at 3:46 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: My statement has predictive power, and I'll gladly put money on it. You ask any number of participants if they agree with the positive set of adjectives or negative set of adjectives describing the God of the Bible, and whether they self-identify as atheist or theist, and you will get a significant correlation.
And as a bonus, do the same with Sheldon's claims, like whether they have an "ability to deny objective reality, no matter how well evidenced, if it contradicts their beliefs."
My single variable vs all of his. $1,000 per person. Who wants to join?
I'm an atheist, and I don't have any relationship with god, positive or negative. We can replace me with any of the vast number of people who have lived, utterly unaware of or unconcerned about your deity, and find exactly the same answer. So many Mayans, Aztecs, Hindus, Polynesians, Buddhists, etc. that just couldn't care less.
