Strudel, this can be solved very simply.
All you have to do is provide replicable, independently verifiable evidence of ANY supernatural event or occurrence. Doesn't even have to be a face-to-face with a god. Any average miracle, ghost, or aura-reading will do.
See, if you can prove even one supernatural experience, you give creedence to ALL supernatural experiences.
The problem for us is that there has never, in the history of man, been a single verified supernatural experience. Not one. This leads us to believe that supernatural experiences are a product of the mind of those experiencing them.
So you can whine all you want about us discounting your PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of experiences but it doesn't change a thing until you provide evidence.
Oh, and people taking pictures and showing them to a judge still requires interpretation. Life is an interpretation. Objective reality, if it exists, is not perceivable by humans. It is well known and well documented that two people seeing exactly the same event will report that event very differently BASED ON PERCEPTION. So your argument that perception is not involved is patently ridiculous.
All you have to do is provide replicable, independently verifiable evidence of ANY supernatural event or occurrence. Doesn't even have to be a face-to-face with a god. Any average miracle, ghost, or aura-reading will do.
See, if you can prove even one supernatural experience, you give creedence to ALL supernatural experiences.
The problem for us is that there has never, in the history of man, been a single verified supernatural experience. Not one. This leads us to believe that supernatural experiences are a product of the mind of those experiencing them.
So you can whine all you want about us discounting your PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of experiences but it doesn't change a thing until you provide evidence.
Oh, and people taking pictures and showing them to a judge still requires interpretation. Life is an interpretation. Objective reality, if it exists, is not perceivable by humans. It is well known and well documented that two people seeing exactly the same event will report that event very differently BASED ON PERCEPTION. So your argument that perception is not involved is patently ridiculous.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Einstein