RE: Conflicting statements in the bible
April 25, 2013 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 5:36 pm by A_Nony_Mouse.)
(April 25, 2013 at 5:20 pm)Tex Wrote: What physical evidence has told you all rational people that exist now and will exist in the future demand physical evidence?
Observation that people who insist upon physical evidence generally arrive at correct conclusions. Relying solely upon physical evidence has been the cause of all human progress in the last four centuries. Antibiotics for example.
That is the reason courts of law demand physical evidence before a trial can be convened and all testimony is restricted to the physical evidence. No one can testify to a fact not in evidence.
Did you miss those? One hopes we do not have irrational people running courts.
Quote:What physical evidence has told you that physical evidence is required for truth?
Truth is an abstract noun. It has no independent existence. There are only true or false things. True things are determined by inspecting the physical evidence.
Quote:What physical evidence says that the events in Boston were a travesty?
Never said they were. Blown all out of proportion by the media if you ask me. There were all kinds of bombs going of in the 1970s what with the Black Panthers and such.
Quote:(People died and were injured) What physical evidence says that dying and being injured is bad? (People don't like being injured and dead) What physical evidence says that majority opinion demands a subsequent ethic?
I have no idea what you mean by bad. The dead are dead and do not care regardless of the believer or the atheist being correct. Injured hurts and people consider that bad when it happens to them. For the rest it is most common a prurient interest of Schadenfreude.
That majority opinion most always does have some popular moral or ethic attached is a fact to which there are several plausible explanations at the moment. None of them require or imply or even remotely suggest a god.
