RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
April 21, 2018 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2018 at 2:21 pm by RoadRunner79.)
(April 21, 2018 at 11:47 am)Grandizer Wrote:(April 21, 2018 at 11:21 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: That could be, because many are inconsistent on what is evidence, when the subject comes to be about God. If you are insinuations, that theists don’t give reasons and evidence for what they believe, I think you are deluding yourself.
What evidence? The incredibly uncompelling arguments that nevertheless provide a lot of leeway for alternative explanations excluding creator deities, when special pleading is controlled for? Personal experiences that are susceptible to biases and misinterpretations and inaccurate memories and selective attention? Abuse/misuse of logic and probabilities? Holding to incredibly naive/outdated notions of metaphysical phenomena, continually ignoring the suggestions of both science and philosophy when it comes to our intuition regarding such phenomena?
If you think that I am ignoring something, please point it out.
(April 21, 2018 at 11:50 am)Hammy Wrote:(April 21, 2018 at 10:42 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Seems like semantics to me, and I don’t see where you are not just playing the pseudo-skeptic game. If you are making a claim, then the burden is on you to support it.
Prove that fire-breathing dragons don't exist. ("just semantics" is a cop-out. Literally all disagreement is just semantics)....
I'm not making any more of a claim that God doesn't exist than you are that fire-breathing dragons don't exist. To expect either of us to prove either 'claim' is absurd.
Lol what the fuck is a pseudo-skeptic? Skepticism isn't about absolute denial, or trying to prove a negative, it's about being skeptical. It seems to me that it's you who wants me to be a pseudo-skeptic, so you can knock down a strawman.
I'm not making any claim about fire breathing dragons though....
First you put a question mark, and ask what is a pseudo-skeptic, then you claim it is a straw man... Which is it? Wiki pedia has a good link on the subject, if you are not familiar with it.
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If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther