RE: What Would It Take To Be Convinced?
May 3, 2015 at 4:07 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2015 at 4:07 pm by Cyberman.)
I'll tell you what it won't take, for me:
It's not an exhaustive list, nor an unreasonable one.
- Unverifiable stories, whether mythology or personal anecdotes.
- PRATT arguments, especially originating from AiG, CSE and similar fraud factories.
- Tortuous logical gymnastics.
- Burden of proof shifting, portable goalposts and especially red herrings.
- Arguments from ignorance/personal incredulity.
- Arguments from popularity.
- God-of-the-gaps.
- Accusations of closed-mindedness, salted with threats of damnation.
- Anything from this list.
- Basically anything that wouldn't withstand detailed scrutiny.
It's not an exhaustive list, nor an unreasonable one.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
