So essentially you're just going to wave off anything that disagrees with your preconceptions, Frodo?
Your rock analogy is flawed because, as Maelstrom pointed out, we have verifiable evidence for the existence of a rock, in the form of our senses, and the sense experiences of others. There's no reasoning involved there; we see a rock, it looks like a rock... there's a rock. Someone else sees the rock, and now we're sure the rock's not a hallucination. That's verified evidence.
Meanwhile, across the world, millions of people are using non-evidence based arguments just like yours to rationalize into existence the gods of every currently active religion, right this second. How do we determine who, of them, is right, especially when all of them will claim that their position is rationally justified, and all of the others are not?
Your rock analogy is flawed because, as Maelstrom pointed out, we have verifiable evidence for the existence of a rock, in the form of our senses, and the sense experiences of others. There's no reasoning involved there; we see a rock, it looks like a rock... there's a rock. Someone else sees the rock, and now we're sure the rock's not a hallucination. That's verified evidence.
Meanwhile, across the world, millions of people are using non-evidence based arguments just like yours to rationalize into existence the gods of every currently active religion, right this second. How do we determine who, of them, is right, especially when all of them will claim that their position is rationally justified, and all of the others are not?
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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