RE: No rational case for God = increasingly desperate attacks on atheists
July 10, 2014 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2014 at 12:18 pm by Anomalocaris.)
One could never get direct evidence that something does not exist enywhere. Yet one can form powerfully convincing working hypothesis, equivalent to a confident, well grounded and believeable assertion, that most things that can be imagined does not in fact exist.
What is the difference between asserting something doesn't exist for which there is no direct evidence and which is overwhelmingly contrary to every expectation we can form based on everything for which we do have direct and rigorous evidence, like a moon sized 13 pedaled flower made of cryptonite that floats just beyond the reach of our most sensitive instrument for which we have no direct evidence and is contrary to every direct evidence we have of behavior of cryton gas, and asserting that god does not exist? One needn't shy from being overwhelmingly confident in a working hypothesis that a moon sized 13 pedaled flower made of cryptonite that floats just beyond the reach of our most sensitive instrument does not exist. One needn't explore every possible corner of universe to put every place in the universe within reach of our instruments to reasonably assert that such a flower does not exist. How is different from asserting any god by any specific definition yet concocted by any theist does not exist.
What is the difference between asserting something doesn't exist for which there is no direct evidence and which is overwhelmingly contrary to every expectation we can form based on everything for which we do have direct and rigorous evidence, like a moon sized 13 pedaled flower made of cryptonite that floats just beyond the reach of our most sensitive instrument for which we have no direct evidence and is contrary to every direct evidence we have of behavior of cryton gas, and asserting that god does not exist? One needn't shy from being overwhelmingly confident in a working hypothesis that a moon sized 13 pedaled flower made of cryptonite that floats just beyond the reach of our most sensitive instrument does not exist. One needn't explore every possible corner of universe to put every place in the universe within reach of our instruments to reasonably assert that such a flower does not exist. How is different from asserting any god by any specific definition yet concocted by any theist does not exist.
