(August 23, 2013 at 7:59 am)Tonus Wrote: But that would require that you believe in pretty much any creature or concept that has some evidence, because evidence that it does not exist is not available. Think of any mythical creature from past or present, and there will be some evidence of it. Stories, legends, histories, scholarly studies, pictures, paintings, footprints, even eyewitness accounts. There will be no evidence that these creatures do NOT exist.
You may have to be a little more open minded when it comes to the existence of the supernatural in general, seeing as it is kind of the idea. Otherwise what you would end up with is a kind of deism, but deism is a waste of time you may as well be an atheist than to believe in a God or a supernatural reality that does nothing at all.
(August 23, 2013 at 7:59 am)Tonus Wrote: Therefore you are forced to believe in dragons, and griffins, and unicorns, and bigfoot, and the Loch Ness monster and green men from Mars in their saucer-shaped spaceships and any number of other beings for whom there is a little bit more evidence for than against.
Dragons, griffins and unicorns were originally just exotic animals and not supernatural. Bigfoot isn't supernatural but there's a chance that is some kind of undiscovered Australopithecus bipedal species of ape somewhere. The Lochness Monster could be some kind of giant eel or fish. 95% of UFO sightings have an explanation, the remaining 5% could be alien ships, alien probes or something a little more exotic and interdimensional. UFO sightings go all the way right back through history and are somewhat consistent. Fighter planes certainly have been dispatched to intercept something and we have pretty reliable reports on what they encountered. So yes you can be a little less cynical on these things.
