(September 8, 2014 at 2:29 pm)naimless Wrote:(September 8, 2014 at 2:25 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: And the claims about deities are extraordinary, whether they are true or not. Thus, they require extraordianry evidence.
Except they are not extraordinary. They are quite ordinary. On the scale of human behaviour, someone claiming to have found god is akin to someone claiming to have found love.
You don't seem to be getting this. If you're claiming that most people hold a theistic belief, then yes, that claim is not extraordinary, it's easily illustrated with statistics. We're saying that the claims they make about their deity are extraordinary, and it doesnt matter how many of them make the claims.
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