RE: Why Something Rather Than Nothing?
October 24, 2014 at 10:35 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2014 at 10:37 pm by Chas.)
(October 24, 2014 at 10:28 pm)datc Wrote: How about we agree to an intermediate statement:
It's up to a theist to present a concept of God and to provide reasons why it refers, and it's up to an atheist to follow and understand the argument and to evaluate it fairly.
The point is, we all have to, well, think hard.
No, you have to provide evidence for that god. Concepts are a dime a dozen.
(October 24, 2014 at 10:31 pm)Heywood Wrote:(October 24, 2014 at 10:29 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Do I really have to do everything for you? You could of at least read what is currently been done. Second, your argunment is a god-of-the-gaps variation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis...generation
I'm posting only two. There are more.
None of those are observations of abiogenesis. No one has ever seen abiogenesis so why should we believe it happened? I am arguing that your claim...that atheist only believe things which have been shown to be true....is false. I am arguing by presenting an example of a belief held by atheists which has never been shown to be true.
I am not arguing the existence of God. There is no God of the Gaps here no matter how much you plead that platitude.
They are evidence for the hypothesis. You have no actual evidence for your idea.
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.