"Andrew"
macunlimited.net> wrote in message
news:2008061523051584492-thecroft@macunlimitednet...> On 2008-06-15 20:20:07 +0100, "Ralph"
yahoo.com> said:
>>>
>> "Andrew"
macunlimited.net> wrote in message
>> news:200806150920098930-thecroft@macunlimitednet...>>> On 2008-06-15 00:57:07 +0100, "Ralph"
yahoo.com> said:
>>>>>>>
>>>> "Andrew"
macunlimited.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:2008061421015727544-thecroft@macunlimitednet...>>>>>> In alt.religion.christian, Bill M
bellsouth.net> wrote:>>>>>>> Andrew, the answer is quite simple. Because there is NO objective
>>>>>>> verifiable
>>>>>>> evidence for the existence of god that is evidence it does noy exist
>>>>>>> except
>>>>>>> in peoples imaginations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Get an education in logic.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Follow your own advice. Here you claim that a lack of evidece is
>>>>>> evidence
>>>>>> of lack.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See, e.g., the article on Argument from Ignorance on WikiPedia.
>>>>>
>>>>> Indeed. I've been trying for years to get Bill to understand that
>>>>> absence
>>>>> of evidence is just that - an absence of evidence. It cannot be
>>>>> reconstructed as evidence for the opposite position.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, that is what every theist in the world states. That is enough to
>>>> make
>>>> reasoned persons wonder.
>>>
>>> We say it because it's logically true. It's not just theists - it's
>>> anyone
>>> who has even a smattering of a grasp of logic,.
>>
>> I have a smattering of logic. That is why sometimes when I read your
>> posts I
>> wonder how you could post such garbage but then I keep forgetting than
>> you
>> are a born-again theist.
>>
>> Given an argument that because there is no evidence for a proposition
>> doesn't provide evidence for the non-existence of that proposition. Given
>> an
>> argument from a theist that god exists and he has these
>> qualities..blah...blah...blah, it would be reasonable to expect evidence
>> for
>> this deity to exist. Looking for this evidence in all places one would
>> reasonably expect to find such evidence and finding none, would be a
>> strong
>> indication that this deity doesn't exist.
>
> Well what evidence are you looking for?
Absolutely any that would even indicate that your god exists, much less
interacts with life on earth.
