...the evidence I have for the existence of gods can't be tested and much of it is too personal to be shared with just anyone.
Well, you can understand why that doesn't do much to convince me, I hope.
I have yet to see any compelling evidence for the nonexistence of god(s)...
And as I've been trying to explain repeatedly to SCK5000, I'm not saying there is any evidence for the non-existence of god/gods/goddess/goddesses. You can't disprove God any more than you can disprove Bertrand Russell's suggestion the universe was created by a tiny tea-pot orbiting the sun somewhere in the asteroid belt. All you can do is say, "I see no reason to accept your hypothesis; if you believe it is true, please give me some evidence that what you say is correct."
To reiterate: If you want me to take seriously your assertion that your deity is real, I need evidence beyond your say-so.
A lot of antitheists mistake absence of proof for proof of absence.
I am not one of them. But the absence of evidence means that an idea is only an idea, not a theory.
And I'm still a little pissed about that bloody dark-energy!
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Re: I wish I Could be an Atheist Sometimes
Date: 2007-02-27 03:29 am (UTC)Well, you can understand why that doesn't do much to convince me, I hope.
I have yet to see any compelling evidence for the nonexistence of god(s)...
And as I've been trying to explain repeatedly to SCK5000, I'm not saying there is any evidence for the non-existence of god/gods/goddess/goddesses. You can't disprove God any more than you can disprove Bertrand Russell's suggestion the universe was created by a tiny tea-pot orbiting the sun somewhere in the asteroid belt. All you can do is say, "I see no reason to accept your hypothesis; if you believe it is true, please give me some evidence that what you say is correct."
To reiterate: If you want me to take seriously your assertion that your deity is real, I need evidence beyond your say-so.
A lot of antitheists mistake absence of proof for proof of absence.
I am not one of them. But the absence of evidence means that an idea is only an idea, not a theory.
And I'm still a little pissed about that bloody dark-energy!