(April 23, 2014 at 9:12 pm)ns1452 Wrote: My point is that the difference between us is not a matter of evidence, but our interpretations. Some of you acknowledged this point and I appreciate that. This is important because it is a major reason why a theistic belief system is plausible. If it was simply a matter of the evidence then there would be no disagreement. We all would be either theists or atheists. However, the theist points to the same evidence as the atheist, but we come away with opposite conclusions. Why is this and how do these interpretations formulate? Before I deal with this question I would like to make a second proposal.I'll disagree with the bolded statement. The difference isn't in how we evaluate the evidence. The bigger difference is in whether we believe there's any evidence to evaluate.
What exactly do you have in the way of "evidence" that any gods exist? Because 95% of what I've seen of theistic evidence is just people saying "I can feel his presence in me". The atheist who can't feel such a presence has no way to experience that evidence, because feelings only exist in the brain of the person feeling them. Which is why atheists tend to assume that these people are just feeling what they hope for, or were taught to expect, rather than anything real. Note that I don't deny that these believers actually feel something - I just understand that the origin of those feelings is far more likely to be psychological than divine.
As for the other 5% of "evidence" I've seen, it's mostly "logical" arguments that amount to a string of logical fallacies that just don't stand up to scrutiny.
So I'll ask again: What evidence do you have for the existence of your God? If you have something worthy of even being called evidence, I'm sure many of us would be willing to take a look at it. And is there a particular reason why you haven't even told us which god you're talking about? I think we're all assuming you're Christian, because that's the safe guess, but I'm sure we'd all like confirmation of that.
That's MISTER Godless Vegetarian Tree Hugging Hippie Liberal to you.
