so being a theist is about not being able to prove oneself right.
Then it's wrong. It's about being wrong. WOW.
I always thought so.. since ive stopped the neck choke of my indoctrination. Happy you agree.
I am ASKING how you know.
I am not preventing anyone from knowing.
I am not pretending to know what I don't actually know.
just because you say you are sure, doesn't mean you know something for real.
You would have to demonstrate that what you CLAIM to know is real.
If you can't give a...
What you give as evidence is very poor indeed. The reason your evidence is so poor is due to logical inconsistencies on your part.
Allow me to illustrate.
1. The Bible isn't evidence for itself. So, that's just wrong thinking.
2. The theory of ID isn't scientific. It has been discredited as...
As long as INCORRECT predictions .. are being ACTUALIZED?... do you mean as long as people make bad predictions about their gods?...
Yes, the possibility of INCORRECT predictions remains.. we can always make INCORRECT predictions about anything. If we make INCORRECT predictions.. then...
A possibility. Well, everything is at least possible to some degree. We humans don't know anything with absolute certainty. Not even logical laws are absolutely certain. But many things are HIGHLY probable, like the laws of logic. And some things are HIGHLY IMPROBABLE like gods and demons and...
So, you can know something and not be able to prove it.
How about nobody can prove it.. not you, not anyone. Still "know" it?
Can you give us an example of that OTHER than some supernatural "knowledge"?
How does it work to say you know something for which there is no proof?
A scientific...
Peer review doesn't establish reality. We agree.
Peer review means that your PEERS review your CLAIMS to see if they are true or false.
IF you do not get outside confirmation that your claim is true or not, then, you MAY have only convinced yourself. There are LOTS of crazies out there who have...
I lost my "faith" about 45 years ago.. I have humanistic values. I need no god.. I am not running around killing people.. I'm a decent, happy person. I love to love. I give to charities... what am I missing here?
I know.. right now, I'm missing a glass of good wine... cheers!
Yes, you have now established that without any peers available, there can be no peer to do any kind of peer review.
It's interesting that you would know the results of laboratory methods BEFORE they were used. How do you know that the results will fail, as you say.. "of course"? Do you know...
That's right. I don't equate the two thousand year philosophical debate of god's existence with choosing what CALZONE to eat with a bunch of friends.. wow.. go figure.. But, apparently, whether god exists or not IS the same as ordering Italian fast food.
Go for it, tiger.
So, let me throw you...
Well, first off, you'd have to prove that your assertion is true.
Here are a few questions you might have to answer first before I could agree with your conclusion about souls and feelings.
1. Is there such a thing as a soul?
2. What is a soul?
3. Do we NEED this soul in order to have feelings...
So, God made it APPEAR that humans evolved. Clever game, that. Fooled ALL the biologists.. I wonder why God needed to deceive so convincingly? Is that why god also hid all the fossils in exactly the right places to fool the paleontologists and the fossil experts?
Because God WANTED scientists...
I am not assuming. I am commenting on your words. This is my OPINION of what you wrote.
I don't come in here with some weird assumptions about people I do not know.
I read, try to understand, and COMMENT.
IF you claim to know the truth.. then defend that position.
How do you know this truth...
- I think you will find that the religious people defined what prayer was and what they claimed would happen. The scientists simply tested that. You are worried that the science used was not good science. Yes, bad scientific methods would yield unreliable results. But we don't have to assume...
It cannot be traced because the nature of the INDIVIDUAL as you say would NOT LEAVE ANY TRACE. So, your demand is ridiculous.
Also, evolution isn't about ONE individual.. it's about species.. groups.. You know that, right?
And you know this.. because.....how...?
- Yes, it COULD have done...
Yes, that was my point. You confuse a completely personal experience with one which can be verified by others.
Notice your errors.
You say that
"IF empiricism ONLY yields valid data to groups and NEVER to individuals... "
I don't understand.. we only ever experience anything at all in a...
As an atheist, I can assure everybody here that I own NO belief in any god whatsoever. I don't have a god .. that I don't believe in.. I don't hold up a god and then say that that god isn't real. NO... What you are asking me is an malformed question.
I don't disbelieve the same god.. to me, god...
- I have no reason to doubt or endorse your honesty. What I want is some kind of proof. Why would I decide to take your testimony on faith, and not any other religious person claiming completely unverifiable things?
- Yes, we notice that you make a claim.
- As you claim.
- That's right...