RE: Arguments against Soul
September 16, 2019 at 7:08 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2019 at 7:09 pm by mordant.)
(September 16, 2019 at 3:08 am)EgoDeath Wrote:(September 15, 2019 at 10:54 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: If a majority of people believes something, then perhaps there is evidence of it you are unaware of. I used to think that the Earth is flat and that everybody else believed it was round for no good reason, and that the burden of proof is on them. That was incredibly arrogant of me.
And while I'm totally open to that, where is it?
There's no saying that as a society we can't have the conversation... but it's sort of hard to have a conversation about such a topic when we have no evidence for the idea we're talking about, isn't it?
More relevant to my mind is that there inherently CAN BE no evidence for an invisible, supernatural being. Such a thing would be outside the natural world and totally inaccessible anyway. If a god is not supernatural (or becomes part of nature by interacting with it), then it is part of the natural world and can be understood like anything else in nature. If it's supernatural, well, that's a useless and illogical concept, which means you can't even concoct and describe what would serve as convincing evidence for such a god hypothesis. A natural (non-supernatural) god is just a very powerful sentient being whose activities could be examined and assessed ... and that's not happening, either.