(September 30, 2009 at 4:14 am)Godless Wrote: Yep, it's up to the claimant to show the proof. The quality of the proof would depend on the reasonableness of the claim being made.
Exactly, the idea of an omnipotent, omniscient being that created the universe is an extraordinary one to say the least, and as such requires extraordinary evidence.
Solarwave, I think my original question was perfectly relevant to the thread, but if you'd like I'll start a new thread for that discussion.
To answer you question, I don't consider anything to be evidence for a god (yours or otherwise), if I did then I'd believe in him/her/it.
As for what could constitute evidence in the future, as others have said, a statistically significant, repeatable prayer study would certainly make me reconsider.
or a god appearing before a large number of credible witnesses.
Or if the face of a man that looks vaguely like the traditional image of jesus somehow appeared on a piece of toast, then I'd be sold!
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
