RE: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".
November 9, 2012 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2012 at 1:07 pm by Norfolk And Chance.)
(November 1, 2012 at 5:35 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: Well of course you can't "tell the difference" between an undetectable god and a non-existent god.
Correct! Which was wholly my point.
(November 1, 2012 at 7:46 am)apophenia Wrote: Do all the things you haven't personally examined therefore have evidence against their existence because of your ignorance?
First of all I'm not ignorant, and secondly no I don't have to personally examine something for it to be true. I've never seen a blue whale but I know they are true because they have been seen, captured etc etc.
If someone tells me that "hey, there's blue whales in the Pacific" I'd be inclined to believe them because it's not an extraordinary claim, and other people have put forward good evidence for their existence which has been documented.
If somebody tells me that there is a martian magic carpet doing ferry trips between the moon and earth, and by the way it's an invisible, undectable, martian magic carpet, and you have to have faith to get a trip on it - then I'm going to say "fuck off you crazy fucker", ie produce some evidence. The more extraordinary the claim is, the more extraordinary is the evidence needed. Certainly in this instance, if nobody can provide evidence, then absence of evidence IS evidence of absence.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
