(June 19, 2014 at 6:59 pm)Lek Wrote: If I know God, and a billion other people know God, I consider that pretty good evidence for God.Unless a significant number of those people don't qualify as "true god believers," right? Because this is the sort of thing I'm referring to in that other thread, where people point to the number of believers as "evidence for god" but quickly whittle those numbers down once we get into specific behaviors or beliefs.
More than 4 billion people claim to know god, but they don't all know the same god, and many of them tell the others that the god they claim to know cannot be the real god. That's a pretty poor standard of evidence to me.
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