Personal experience

[tackattack]

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Yes, it is a stretch. In fact, it has been proven that dolphins and some fish DO have those senses, while it has not been proven that some people can see auras. Would you believe me if I said I was physic, like Godhead said he was?

Question: Why does humans not having a sense that other mammals/fish have make it hard to believe in? They are a DIFFERENT SPECIES, of course they are going to be DIFFERENT from humans.

Another thing I'd like to add is the fact that you don't think it's weird that dolphins and fish have gills and humans don't, or that bears and cats have fur and humans don't, or that birds can fly and humans can't.

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Sorry it was a very long night, but rest does wonders.
I wouldn't believe you were psychic unless you could provide evidence. They're different yet we share some common senses. My point was illustrated somewhere that seeing apparitions could possibly be detecting residual electromagnetic fields or auras could be reading the electromagnetic fields of the living, etc. Of course I don't think it's weird, we have different needs and environment therefore different adaptations, that's natural selection. The question is can we select what traits we want to and affect natural selection and can would active use and trust in a non-material based sense strengthened it to the point it can be measured.

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it was apparent from public opinion that he was delusional.

What has public opinion got to do with reality, tack? Just because his delusions of god are more extreme than yours does not mean that yours are valid as evidence any more than his. You are correct when you say that his statements should be admitted as evidence. However, any defense attorney worth his salt would portray such statements as indicative of mental illness....not that 'god' said it was okay.

There are degrees of "crazy" you know. I would be willing to accept "personal experience" as evidence of mental illness.

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there's what's real to an individual and what's real to others and what's real to everyone else. The court of public opinion has a great influence over what the general populous accepts as reality. Delineating delusion from evidence I agree is tantamount to a valid perception of reality.

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@tack. You are not failing to convey your point. But you seem unable to accept that people can only experience something. I don't value my experiences as having any value as evidence. Strong athiesm makes a positive claim that there is no god. As such I can have am experience inwhich I can directly apprehend non existence (as indeed mother Theresa had). I can't see why you can't understand this point.

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I realize you're a hard atheist, and I think I understand your perspective because I illustrated it with an analogy. Rather than rehash your appeal to false authority and emotive characters and simply restating your points please progress the conversation by answering these questions:
1-You have a scale with a fish on one side. There is no thing on the other side. Could you balance the scale by adding any amount of nothing?
2-You have a container filled with water. You have a container filled with no thing. How much space does nothing take up?
3-I observe someone getting hit by a car. With zero ties to anyone involved and no knowledge of the even, how would you know that something happened?