(December 15, 2014 at 1:54 am)His_Majesty Wrote: You said in post #75 "He (God) actually doesn't do anything at all, because he is a figment of your imagination."
That is a claim of knowledge...
No, it is a rejection of your claim.
If I told you about an invisible dragon living in my garage and you told me that dragon is just in my imagination, this is not a claim of knowledge but a rejection of my claim of the dragon's existence. This is a reasonable statement given the lack of reason to believe the dragon exists.
This is why we can lock away people who "hear voices" in their heads. We can't prove the voices aren't really unseen spirits that somehow only the locked away person can hear. It is not necessary to prove that the voices do no exist outside his imagination. Simply the fact that the claim of hearing voices lacks any evidence to support any source outside his imagination is enough.
It is logically impossible to prove a negative. It is therefore absurd (and an appeal to ignorance) to demand anyone prove a negative even if they claim a negative. The proper response is to prove the positive. Otherwise, the statement of the negative remains within the bounds of rational skepticism.
Your god does not exist.
Now prove me wrong by proving he does.
Anytime now.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
