(October 5, 2021 at 3:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's interesting that you've retreated to deism..because you don't believe in deism.
Lol. Theism is a subset of deism. I am a theist, and therefore a deist......
(October 5, 2021 at 3:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Or do you? Have you abandoned islam? Do you now believe, in retrospect, that islam is demonstrably false but that deism is not defeated by those observations which establish as much?
I didn't mention Islam/theism because it may be falsifiable. Islam is based on many core texts and sayings of the prophet, and so can be falsified if one verse or saying is somehow falsified.
(October 5, 2021 at 3:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You're wrong, btw, absence of evidence is evidence of absence. The rule, poorly misappropriated by yourself to lose an argument, is that absence of evidence is not proof of absence.
Okay, then. Let's apply your wrong rule : I see no footprints of Nudger in my house, Nudger doesn't exist.
And this rule or aphorism is actually cited in the literature in the terms I used.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7647644/
https://wiki.c2.com/?AbsenceOfEvidenceIs...eOfAbsence