(June 11, 2015 at 4:33 pm)SteveII Wrote: I disagree that this is appeal to numbers. It is a psychological observation of people's choices and is therefore data that can be used as evidence that there might be more than the material world.
Again, you display your less than stellar grasp of basic logic.
So, when the vast majority of humanity believed that the sun orbited the earth, and that the earth was flat, was that evidence that they were correct?
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.