(June 16, 2014 at 9:08 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I started our conversation esq by quoting you. You eventually asked (3rd or 4th response) "what other evidence could there be". In line with my summation of your position, still evident in your post above, that you don't think any other evidence is possible.
No, actually, what I asked was, and this is a direct quote, "what else would you like there to be?" A question you still haven't answered, and which I asked because, as my next response to the first in your long line of evasions hinted at, I suspected that you were going to try and slip faith under the door as a justification for belief, or perhaps the logic that you continually refer to without ever expanding on.
See, I have a sort of metric for evidence that determines how much or how little I'll believe a thing. Empirical evidence isn't required for me to believe something, but what does need to happen is the claim or proposed evidence needs to be falsifiable and testable, so that at some stage it might yield some empirical result, as obviously empirical evidence is sufficient to fully confirm that something is real. So while claims based on observations and so on may be justifiably believable, I don't feel that it's sufficient to just rest on those laurels like I get the feeling you would.
Don't mistake a request for additional information, for a comprehensive overview of my entire position on an issue.
Quote:So yes, it's your dodge
We have had this conversation a few times before. Your feigned memory loss is unimpressive.
What is impressive, it seems, is your complete unwillingness or inability to actually comprehend what's being typed at you. And to answer questions.
Quote:Have you read the Wikipedia article on scientism yet?
I read it when you first posted it. Given that it didn't apply to my position, no matter your mewling protestations, I discarded it as irrelevant.
Quote:What is reality and is it possible for humans to reason anything separately from it?
Reality is that which exists in the real world, and humans can reason themselves into all kinds of positions regardless of that; every single god claim that you don't believe in should be proof of that.
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