(October 28, 2014 at 3:02 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: To say that you disbelieve because there is no evidence, when such evidence is logically impossible, is not rational.
There was a bear at my campsite It had the power to create the forest surrounding the campsite and the power to erase all evidence of that creation and of it's own existence. It wants me to believe without evidence, to trust that it is there and was protecting my campsite and always will protect my campsite. If I believe it will protect my campsite. It is not recordable by camera, seismograph, radar, x-ray or any other equipment unless it chooses to be so. It does not choose to be so. My camp space is not statistically safer than any other. When I see it, it is a bear. When my friend sees it, it's a lion. I feel safer knowing it is there.
No evidence of my bear is rationally possible as it has the power to erase all evidence. Is it rational to not to believe in my bear? Because I'm really sure you don't.
More simply, if something cannot be proven by empirical evidence and logic, than not only is it rational to believe that that something doesn't exist, it does not matter if it exists since it does not affect the real world.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.



