RE: If I were an Atheist
March 8, 2015 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2015 at 8:42 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 8, 2015 at 7:03 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote:Quote:Laughably incorrect.
Make your case...I've made mine.
I haven't seen your evidence, a/k/a your case. What "evidence" I've seen proffered from other theists -- wonderment at a complex universe, the complexity of biodiversity, etc -- are equally explicable without appealing to a deity, and do not comprise any physical remnant or effect which is not explicable by more parsimonious explanations.
Other arguments, which also are not evidence, refer to Kalam, or ontology, and other allegedly reasonable appeals which have been refuted.
So, you claim to have evidence. Let's see it. Remember, evidence is not a "logical" argument or one of Anselm's "proofs". Evidence exists in the real world, is palpable, and objective. And by the way, you haven't even defined your deity. Before you lay out your "evidence", do take the time to define what you understand to be "god", so that we have an established set of goalposts that will not move throughout the conversation.
As for my evidence for the absence of a deity, I'll go on ahead and present it now: it's the absence of said deity. Don't see him at the corner market, don't see him in the White House, he hasn't been to school since you-know-who knows when. Hell, some believers even allege he wasn't even in his own grave -- now that's absent!
So, whatcha got there, bud? Solid stuff will be required. Bullshit need not apply.
Go!