apophenia Wrote:If we take the proposition G being "God exists" and conclude that no evidence of any kind could demonstrate that it is true, that seems every bit as faith based as the position that no evidence could prove it false.
Not so, because the likelihood that it is actually God is still vastly smaller than almost any imaginable mundane explanation. They are not equal leaps of faith. And, since theists have framed the debate to make positive proof completely impossible, then there is only the possibility that it can be proved to be mundane trickery.
This is precisely how most people treat most unsubstantiated and unfalsifiable claims.
