(October 17, 2014 at 1:51 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Drich: "If you A/S/K, you'll get knowledge of God."
Anyone else: "I did A/S/K, but I did not get knowledge of God."
Drich: "Well, only if you really A/S/K do you get knowledge of God."
You don't stop for one moment to even consider your method is flawed.
I've put this to him many times. Not once did I get a satisfying answer.
The A/S/K method is unfalsifiable.
If we claim that we tried, there are an endless number of excuses Dritch can give on why it didn't work.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
