(August 11, 2019 at 6:06 am)Acrobat Wrote:(August 10, 2019 at 10:08 pm)Sal Wrote: The same reason I don't believe in Bigfoot, is the same reason I don't believe in a deity.I'm curious, when it comes to big foot, it's nit hard to imagine what such evidence would look like, such as foot prints, photos, etc...
It's the lack of evidence. Theists use special pleading for their god.
But what would evidence of God look like? Would evidence pointing to us being a product of some created order, as ID proponents, and their like often try to make a case for, constitute as evidence for God?
I've seen that you read a lot of the same writers I do... (Zizek, John Gray, etc.)
Have you read the Terry Eagleton book where he describes the "Yeti theory of God"? I think the Bigfoot theory would be the American version.
He uses it specifically to identify people who don't know anything about theology, but nonetheless want to say that religion is stupid.