(July 4, 2012 at 11:06 am)CliveStaples Wrote: That's a really interesting argument. I'd like to see some support for it, though; how do you know that I "cannot provide a shred of evidence to support" that God exists? I get the rhetorical reason to call it a "fairy-tale-monster god-figure", because you want it to seem fictional, but since God's status as a fictional entity is the very issue under debate, it seems like a cheap rhetorical trick. And we all know that you rationalist-skeptic atheists are characterized by reason and logic, not manipulative appeals to emotion, right?
Then please provide evidence for said god and we'll move on from there. Then we will know that you can indeed provide evidence, and that Taq is in fact incorrect.
NB: Personal anecdotes, opinions and beliefs are not evidence.
I look forward to reading your evidence and reassessing my views on the matter.