(May 10, 2025 at 5:14 pm)Belacqua Wrote:Straw man, yet again.(May 10, 2025 at 4:25 pm)Alan V Wrote: he should be
Objective evidence, as we pointed out, is never some sort of pure and direct perception, but always facts that are interpreted in light of prior beliefs.
Quote:you have an image or conception of what an omnipotent God would be like, and then you look for indications in the world of whether that God exists. And of course you find none.
Utterly wrong, you make claims, and we ask you to justify them, god claims are treated the same as all the others. Why wouldn't they be?
Quote:Then a question you could ask would be: is my conception of God the same as the one that intelligent Christians hold? When I look at the world and interpret it as lacking signs of God, am I looking for the right kind of thing?
Then a question you could ask would be: is my conception of unicorns the same as the one that intelligent Unicornists hold? When I look at the world and interpret it as lacking signs of un, am I looking for the right kind of thing?