(August 29, 2010 at 11:34 am)Watson Wrote: @Cap'n Scarlet- What? How do you make the leap from 'allow one expience as evidence' to 'allow them all as evidence'? They are personal experiences, and thus they must all be evaluated on a personal level. Yet again a blanket is thrown over top the human aspect of this to try and distort the answer.I agree. And as personal experiences are subjective they are valueless as a truth claim. Therefore they do not provide evidence for a god.
@Paul- Everything is connected, in some way or another. Some people know where to look for the connections, and soem people don't. To truly 'prove' to you that the man's claim that God spoke to Him was true, we would have to prove God. To prove God, we would have to observe the universe from a literally God's eye view, and make all of the connections in all of the right ways in their vast gloriousness. To do so from our limited human perspective would be impossible and incomprehensible.
Basically, the universe is bigger than us, Paul. And so is God. haha
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
