(January 23, 2009 at 1:46 pm)lilphil1989 Wrote: So, imagine if I were to write on a scrap of paper "Invisible pink unicorns exist", and present this as evidence for the existence of said unicorns.
Now, as conclusive as my proof is....people don't accept it.
Are you suggesting that this doesn't mean it is not evidence for my unicorns?
If you expanded your statement to say for example: 'Invisible pink unicorns exist BECAUSE I detect an intelligence in the laws of mathematics/physics and indeed the intelligence behind the origins of life', then I would agree that your 'detections' are noteworthy but I would conclude that your narrowing it down to a particular entity (in this case, a pink invisible unicorn????) was somewhat peculiar, whereas I would say that I concluded that these 'laws' and intelligence pointed towards a being or intelligence of whose exact nature I did not know.
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