RE: OK Christians. your chance. Convince me of God.
September 25, 2012 at 10:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2012 at 10:15 pm by Darkstar.)
Cherrypicking is ignoring evidence that is contrary to your claim, and only using evidence that supports it.
Basically, it all comes down to this: either the singularity exploded on its own, or an omnipotent uber powerful being with infinite knowledge of the universe materialized spontanously and instantaneously from nothing and created the universe.
treshbond Wrote:that may be true, but it wasn't purely superstitious, it is actually fairly reasonable when making a hypothesis to consider a number of different possible explanations for what is being observed. I think that before tools and systems of measurement were devised, thinking that the sun which perceptibly moves (and the earth which in many ways does not) means that the sun revolves around the earth is a logical thought.Yes, and those events didn't happen now, so we can't test them (assuming that they ever happened).
The Resurrection, miracles and ascension are supernatural names which if observed and tested could possibly be accepted as natural once understood. The problem is that they have to be observed and falsifiable. That doesn't make them impossible, simply improbable. The question is how improbable
Basically, it all comes down to this: either the singularity exploded on its own, or an omnipotent uber powerful being with infinite knowledge of the universe materialized spontanously and instantaneously from nothing and created the universe.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.