(January 2, 2013 at 9:14 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: "Alvin Plantinga once debated an atheist who commenced the debate, along the same lines as our friend above, by claiming that Plantinga bore the burden of proof of theism. Plantinga simply responded with, "No I don't." The atheist responded, "Yes you do," to which Plantinga again responded, "No I don't." After a while it became apparent that Plantinga's point was that atheism has no way of justifying its claim that theism bear the burden of proof - at least, it has no way of justifying it while staying within its philosophical framework. That an atheist considers the claims of a theist to be extraordinary is irrelevant. They are assuming a benchmark which they have no way of proving as valid."This Platinga guy seems a bit daft.
http://newcovenant.blogspot.co.uk/2004/0...proof.html
Reminds me of a "scientist" that caught a fly with a cup.
He would then bang on the cup with a spoon and see the fly move about like crazy.
He then decided to pluck out the fly's legs. Banged again and noticed the fly would jump much less.
He then plucked out its wings. Banged again and the fly couldn't jump around.
He then concluded that flies with no legs nor wings are deaf.
