(July 3, 2012 at 2:34 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote: Can anyone give me a good case against the existence of God that can stand up to scrutiny?
No, and neither can anyone else. There is no case to make against the existence of gods.
I've seen no evidence and no argument for or against the existence of gods that is at all conclusive. As you say this is sufficient to support a position of agnosticism and like most people on this site, I am.
Now unless you take the position that evidence is a necessary condition for holding beliefs, one can go right on believing what he likes about gods. You may go right on feeling the presence of God if you do and I can go on noticing no such thing. As personal truths regarding our experience, we owe no one a convincing argument for the beliefs we discover operative in our lives.
More controversially, I don't think it is necessarily irrational to hold such beliefs. At most, like so much of who we are, it is merely non-rational.
To make an argument that either one of us should believe what the other does we must leave the arena of passive, personal truths and look for objective reasons. But as we both seem to think, that search will be in vain.
