Daniel Smith
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| Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Feb. 02 2009,17:03) | So this appears to be your argument:
God must be real because billions of people think there's a God (or otherwise believe in some kind of religious framework) with absolutely no empirical evidence for his existence. |
My beliefs are not based on numbers at all. My beliefs are based on my own experiences with God. As for empirical evidence, you won't accept any since everything is consistent with an all powerful mechanism, but the evidence points to the fact that life requires either an omnipotent, omniscient God, or an accidental mechanism that just got lucky enough to build designs that look like they were built by such a being. Whether or not accidental forces can do such a thing remains to be seen.
| Quote | | So basically you're arguing that something is real in the absence of any real evidence, just because lots of people think so. |
Nope. I used the numbers just to prove a point.
| Quote | Even people whose religious beliefs are very different from yours, and whose beliefs you reject count as 'evidence' for your religious beliefs.
You really don't see the holes in this? |
Maybe you should examine your own belief system and see if you can find any 'holes' in that before you lecture me about mine?
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"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance." Orville Wright
"The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question." Richard Dawkins
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