Organic Molecules Found 400 Light Years From Earth

[Brian37]

Christopher Hitchens, "That which can be easily asserted without evidence can be just as easily dismissed without evidence."

I wonder how many have really thought through how this can be applied.  For example.

Easily asserted without evidence: "God does not exist."

Based on what Christopher Hitchens says, the claim can be easily dismissed without evidence to imply the only other possible result I can think of: "God exists."

Easily asserted without evidence: "God exists."

Based on what Christopher Hitchens says, the claim can be easily dismissed without evidence to imply the only other possible result I can think of: "God does not exist."

A statement that can be used like that is essentially useless as far as I can see.

So before you even try to ask the question of how non life went to life, and want that cause to be your pet deity, you have to prove that your god exists and is even necessary.

BS.

The one who makes the claim has the burden of proof. I have tried hard not to make any claims. I did make at least one claim that I had to withdraw as it was unsupportable as pointed out by Mr. Agenda. As far as I know, I have not made any claims regarding God. Furthermore, you asked me not to talk about God and I will respect that. 


The claim that it was easy to go from life to non-life via naturalistic mechanisms was yours, not mine. So the burden is on you as it is your claim.

I don't think you have come close to proving it.

Does anyone here think Brian has come close to proving that it is easy to go from life to non-life via naturalistic mechanisms?

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAH

Ok fine, PROVE IT.

You and Muslims and Jews and Hindus and Buddhist. All of you get your best scientists, have a pow wow. Come up with a neutral method, and neutral control groups, test and falsify it, then when you figure out who was right, get back to us.

You just accused us of wanting you to prove a negative when in reality that is what you were doing. 

Hitchens is full of shit. Ok, fine. PROVE IT. Not up to us to prove what you claim.

All claims are not true by default just because someone can make sound waves with their mouths or type on a computer. If "prove it isn't true" worked, then all gods claimed in our species history are all true since you cannot prove they are not true. You know that is utter nonsense.