RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
May 21, 2014 at 9:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2014 at 9:49 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(May 21, 2014 at 8:42 pm)Bad Writer Wrote:GC Wrote:I've seen all to often that atheist say all claims need proof...Citation needed. I have never said this. Has anyone else here ever said this? I think not.
Carl Sagan once said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." What do you think qualifies as an extraordinary claim? If I tell you that I had a sandwich for lunch, is that claim extraordinary?
I interpret "evidence" differently such that some claims can serve as evidence for themselves.
"There's a cat!" is correlated with cats, thus it's evidence of a cat typically.
"There's an act of God!" isn't necessarily correlated with divine intervention, so it's not evidence of it. You could hypothesize that they really witnessed divine intervention, but that's only one hypothesis among many, and you could argue that other hypotheses are better supported.