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Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
(August 26, 2013 at 2:06 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Any explanation for something makes far far far more sense than literally no explanation at all.

Not if the explanation is wrong or requires more and more ad hoc rationalisations to prop it up. I'm reminded of the old epicycles explanation for the movements of the outer planets, back in the days of the geocentric Universe, or the Cosmic Aether as a medium to propogate lightwaves through Space. Merely changing the perspective corrected these and other false conclusions. Seems like we still have a way to go.

But if you truly believe that any explanation is better than none, then I hope (for the purposes of illustration) that you find yourself being convicted and sentenced for a crime you did not commit by a justice system that believes the same way. After all, they've got their guy -or at least 'a' guy - and closed the case. Any explanation beats having none at all, right?

If we all thought like you, based on what you share here, then we would never have learned how to make fire. We'd still be sitting in a forest, praying for the next lightning bolt.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong? - by Cyberman - August 26, 2013 at 3:29 pm

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