RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 15, 2015 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2015 at 5:16 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 15, 2015 at 4:12 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 15, 2015 at 4:07 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: So tell me Mr. Horn, do you need to falsify your disbelief in: Bigfoot, alien abductions, various lake monsters, lizard shape shifting aliens and the other 1000's of claims you disbelieve? Or is simply being unconvinced by the lack of evidence enough?
Don't hold your breath for a comprehensive answer on that. I already brought up Bigfoot and Randy supposedly being sceptical about him being real, but all I got was a "joking" evasion.
But of course.
Talking snakes, men living in fish for 3 days, many holy men leaving their graves and walking into Jerusalem, 3 hours of darkness, healing leprosy with dead birds, casting demons into pigs, dragons living in Babylon... not silly beliefs. At all.
How does one justify belief in magic as being less ridiculous than a large, hairy hominid species somehow surviving deep the in the forest?
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.
