(June 19, 2014 at 9:56 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(June 19, 2014 at 9:48 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I'll bite. I'd walk around the corner and take the money. What's your point?
Atheists say that they won't believe in God unless he proves himself to them. They won't take the money without proof that it's there first.
What a delightful equivocation fallacy.
The example of the money around the corner is something than can be proved with evidence, such as taking a look around the corner.
Belief in God is something that cannot be proved with evidence, as by definition God (allegedly) exists outside our realm of measurement and understanding.
Additionally, obtaining a million dollars in and of itself is something I would call and unmitigated positive result, whereas the proposition of God isn't.
A more apt analogy woud be: Around the corner there is a million dollars. You can't look around the corner, and you can't use any instruments to measure anything about the million dollars. In order to accept the million dollars, you must follow these certain rules for the rest of your life. If you don't accept that the million dollars exist, you get tortured forever.
Your analogy is sloppy.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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