(August 3, 2014 at 9:38 am)frasierc Wrote: I think its a false analogy to compare evidence of gravity with evidence for the existence of God.
One of the key things you learn when doing empirical research is using the right method that fits the research question/hypothesis - rather than assuming there is one right method for testing all hypotheses.
So it really depends on what you mean by evidence - all the counter arguments I've read on the thread really come down to a prior commitment not to interpret the universe, history or experience in theistic terms.
If you've presupposed that only naturalist explanations of the world are valid - of course you're going to conclude there is no evidence for the existence of God. But to show this assumption is valid you need to present evidence why naturalism is true - otherwise it doesn't prove anything its just begging the question.
First of all, bad user, don't necropost.

Second of all: evidence of naturalism? Do you not agree that the natural world exists? And that we can easily observe it?
Now give me some evidence that a god exists.

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