(October 22, 2014 at 6:20 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(October 22, 2014 at 8:35 am)jesus_wept Wrote: I don't understand, what's the difference between "a force that exists in no tangible form, in a separate dimension" and something that doesn't exist? How can you tell one from the other?
Our identity has no tangible form.
Except as patterns in our brains.
Quote:Even if souls don't exist,
There is no evidence that they do.
Quote:what is being made by the mind and the concept of self has no tangible physical form.
Except as patterns in our brains.
Quote:What we perceive of it and our experience of it is something else entirely even if it is created by a physical components and the brain.
Except there is no evidence of that, nor any hypothesis of how it could be possible.
Quote:God is like an identity except he isn't created by physical components. Just like you can detect your identity, believers believe God can be detected spiritually.
People believe all kinds of nonsense.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
