(April 4, 2015 at 7:05 am)Riketto Wrote: One atheist dogma is to expect physical evidence about something that may not be physical like an hypothetical God.
Sorry, but if you are claiming that your god manifests in any way in the physical universe, like: miracles, communicating with humans, inspiring ancient books to be written, answering prayers, intervening on behalf of certain humans, etc, then those effects on the natural universe would be physical evidence for the existence of a god.
If you believe your god communicates with you, you are claiming to be a 'god detector', and that, by definition is a phenomena that is effecting the natural universe and open for scientific inquiry.
Quote:One more atheist dogma is to expect an hypothetical God to show up to someone (an atheist) that is not interested in knowing Him.
Why wouldn't he?
A hypothetical god would know that I am a naturally inquisitive person, with a strong desire to understand the truth of reality, that my mind is open, and that I would accept his existence if he did show himself to me. And he would know exactly what he needed to do for me to believe he existed.
Why would he make the process to 'know him' look identical to gullibility?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
