This is a very interesting OP to yours truly, for I have always wanted to know about probability and randomness, in particular as applied tp the existence of God, or to the issue of God existing or not existing.
Now, right away I like to inquire from you dear author of the thread, what is your...
Good, Polymath257, let us talk about evidence, and thanks for your idea of what is evidence:
"Well, evidence is information that distinguishes one possibility from others. In particular, it has to be observable and serve to show alternate explanations are wrong. Simple consistency when also...
Dear Curious George, I have thought that it be best for us all to work as to concur on what we mean by existence, because existence is the last frontier which will prevent us from straying on and on endlessly without getting connected at all.
So, what do you say, an example of an object outside...
Dear Polymath257:
Yes, I concur with you on the need for evidence on the issue of God exists or not.
As you bring up the word evidence, what do you say, will you do me the favor of presenting your concept of what is evidence, in re God exists or not?
I will be happy to oblige when you instead...
Dear folks here, now we are at this point in time four here in this thread of mine.
Just exercise your discretion to react to my thinking here or there in my other threads or wherever you find me to be also engaged in, or both here and there and everywhere, because the more we write the more we...
Dear Columbus, please read the OP, let me reproduce it for your convenience, see Annex below.
You see, dear Columbus, you and atheists generally are what I call Christian atheists, they are ex-Christians who are disillusioned with God as described in the Old Testament, but with Christians they...
Dear Segev, you are barking up the wrong tree when you take on God as in the Old Testament, God as a tribal deity into everything unjust to favor His own tribe or His chosen people.
But the Old Testament still in the core gets the concept of God correctly, as first and foremost the creator and...
That is why it is so confusing, it requires that posters play as in a movie: good guys playing bad guys' role and bad guys playing good guys' role.
That is why it is a silly thread, it belongs in movieland.
Thanks, Brian, you bring in the debate between Russell and Fr. Copleston.
Part One is on the cosmological argument, i.e. the universe exists and has a beginning, and therefore God exists in concept as first and foremost the creator and operator of the universe and man and everything with a...
Dear Columbus, thanks, you are a theist or deist, you know god to exist, as you declare, "I believe in god...".
So, we have something in common, namely, that God or god exists.
So, let us we two talk about why atheists come to the position that god does not exist.
Is that okay with you...
Dear Curious George, we have to sort out our thoughts, things are getting labyrinthine like.
What is your scenario of concern, in your mind or outside your mind?
My scenario is outside my mind but also inside my mind.
It's like this: The scenario in the mind is of broadly ideas, while the...
Dear Segev, you say:
“[From Sanmario] So, I ask them, if you propose a concept of Bigfoot before you go forth to seek evidence of his existence, is that already a prejudgment that Bigfoot exists?
[From Segev] If you have special rituals that are all based on the assumption that it exists, then...
At this point in time, it is impossible to talk with atheists here.
Dear atheists here, what happened, to make you impossible to talk with?
It is almost like Dawkins refusing to debate Craig.
Anyway, I will just reproduce the OP for new atheist posters visiting this thread, for them to get...
Dear Curious George, you are again into making unrealistic suppositions, you can make realistic suppositions like Suppose you are not here and I am not here, that is a realistic supposition because there are people who are not here, and we two can go away and thus not here anymore.
You want to...
Thanks to the author of this thread.
Now, let us all work as to concur in our respective mind on what is evidence in re God exists or not.
Here is again my gambit of a concept of evidence [see below for the post of concern].
"Evidence is anything in existence or in concept in our mind, that...
Well, dear Curious George, I really want us to be simple and not densely complicated.
Suppose you ask me this question:
Dear Sanmario, Are you insisting that a nothingness can turn itself into a somethingness?
So, please ask me that question, so that with my answer to the question, we will...