(January 10, 2015 at 10:48 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Unfortunately.
Burden of proof is really a difficult concept for her.
Rik's just more persistent, but his argument is one we see pretty often. In short, there is this whole other dimension of existence that we cannot detect and therefore neither prove nor disprove. But it's there, it really is! And that is where God A lives and where he operates from. And if you just pick up on the proper spiritual (or metaphysical, etc) cues, you will get to know him.
Mind you, if anyone uses those cues to find some other god then they did it WRONG and they'd better get their shit together pronto. And don't start with the excuses! Just because you did exactly what I did does not mean your results count! Only if they are exactly like mine, dammit!!!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould