RE: No verifiable evidence is the Christian position
August 16, 2013 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2013 at 7:19 pm by Simon Moon.)
(August 16, 2013 at 6:13 pm)Undeceived Wrote: What makes the supernatural a last "resort"? Are you saying that everything should be considered natural until proven supernatural? If so, why?
Are you serious?
Of course a natural explanation is always be considered the most likely. Reasons?
1. The natural can be proven to exist.
2. Whenever there has been an unknown that gets explained in a verifiable, demonstrable way, has the explanation ever been the supernatural?
3. The supernatural explains a mystery by appealing to an even bigger mystery.
4. The supernatural actually offers no explanatory or predictive power.
5. Every culture and religion in the world has different supernatural beliefs to explain the same type of events. Most are mutually exclusive with all the others, and there's no method to find out if any of them are correct.
And when a natural explanation for something is currently unknown, that does not mean that a supernatural explanation becomes more likely by default.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
