(June 1, 2013 at 5:38 am)Consilius Wrote: The thing is that no one would be satisfied. Worst case scenario, you would claim that we don't have the science to debunk it yet.
Why would God spend time drying up oceans when there are already Christians everywhere working to spread his message?
It's not about getting you to look at him; Christianity is about God getting people to meet him halfway.
So, rather than demonstrate miracles, god is content with his followers spreading his message through fallacious arguments and appeals to emotion? If god exists, he isn't asking for people to meet him halfway. He is asking for complete intellectual surrender.
(June 1, 2013 at 5:38 am)Consilius Wrote: What you're looking for is an account of the day his voice boomed down from heaven, but that is something that you simply won't get.
No. What I'm looking for is something more substantial than a believer pointing to something that exists and claiming that is proof of god without any attempt whatsoever to demonstrate why. What I am looking for is something other than philosophical concepts that can't be demonstrated to exist without an appeal to the existence of the very deity you are trying to prove. What I'm looking for is something that doesn't require discarding rationality and reason to accept.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
