RE: What would you consider to be evidence for God?
April 14, 2016 at 8:19 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2016 at 8:20 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 14, 2016 at 8:10 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 14, 2016 at 8:02 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: So no, your Anselm quote does not disarm comparisons between the Christian god and other mythological creatures.
Maybe for you it is not a defeater, but for a rational person it would be.
As soon as your god is supported by demonstrable, falsifiable, verifiable evidence, then it will no longer be a member of the set of unevidenced and unsupported existential claims (along with other mythological creatures in that set), then we can talk.
Again, not comparing the attributes given to various mythological creatures. Just comparing their lack of evidence.
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.
