(February 22, 2015 at 6:51 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote:
(February 22, 2015 at 5:25 pm)ether-ore Wrote: Having identified yourself as an unbeliever (atheist), you are probably as entrenched in your belief as I am in mine.This is the crux of our misunderstanding. The biggest thing that separates you and I with regards to our beliefs is that I, as an Atheist, am not entrenched in any of my beliefs. I only keep the ones I have good reasons to support. I am always willing to change my mind in fact, I outlined very plainly what you needed to do to change my mind. I didn't reject any of your answers. You did not answer my question. If I asked you to explain how you distinguish a dog from a duck, and you started telling me about how the word duck sounds better to you, I would await an answer that is better suited to my question. I asked you to demonstrate how you can know that Allah is not the real God and that 1.2 billion Muslims are all wrong about the God they are certain to exist. You started talking about how your religion makes sense. That's not an answer that is suited to satisfy my question. If you take one thing away from this exchange, I hope it's the understanding that being entrenched in beliefs is only a problem for people of faith. When you form beliefs that are consistent with the evidence, the accuracy of your beliefs becomes important and the goal is not how long you can maintain a belief, but how well it reflects reality. It's a decision to nevER feel entrenched in a belief ever again.
I feel like this is a good place for this video. I don't care if it's a remake, it's great!
I cannot answer your question.