(December 17, 2019 at 3:13 pm)Succubus Wrote:(December 17, 2019 at 2:07 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I've never thought of that as a trick question. I was a Nazarene for a long time, like more than a decade, and when I encountered people that didn't believe I was befuddled because God was such an obviously real thing to me. I used to wonder what it would take to show atheists the "truth". It really is a good question hopefully maxolla will pay attention to honest answers to that question.
It is a trick question though, it's a rabbit hole question. No matter what is proposed as convincing evidence there will always be a counter to it.
"All fourteen year old children becoming seven year old children."
Ya'but, how do you know it wasn't a highly advanced alien race?
And so it goes, they will always have an out.
Edit: Ninja'd by your good self.
I just mean that the question itself isn't necessarily a trick and if it is meant as a trick, the person must be horribly obtuse