(March 29, 2010 at 2:04 pm)CHOOCHOO! Wrote: Who cares? Clearly not theists I guess. Isn't it pretty illogical to believe something is true when there's no reasoning or evidence to suggest it as such, AND there is also reason to believe it is actually false? Nobody will probably ever find an argument that states "X religion is false" and "X religion is very likely to be false" is as close as anyone will get. A lot of theists cling onto the misguided belief that their god and holy text are likely to be true, so proving the opposite is at least worth something imo.
Believing something is true when there is no evidence to suggest it is true is silly, but if there is a logical reason for why people do it then I do not see it as illogical, but that isn't the point of your topic. If you're trying to persuade theists and they don't care, then the argument is not worth bringing up because it doesn't further the conversation and because the argument isn't valid. Like I said before, the likelihood of something has nothing to do with whether or not that thing is true or not.
