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nornerator

So here it is, that thread all you theists have been waiting for, a perfect opportunity to prove to the world that your god is true!

Anecdotal evidence is meaningless unless there is some sort of objective evidence to verify the anecdotal evidence.

What will be allowed as evidence:

-Everything must be found in a peer reviewed article
-Any evidence submitted MUST be positive evidence that proves YOUR GOD exists.

What will not be allowed:
-Anything from a non-peer reviewed source
-Evidence that science doesn't know everything and therefore god must exist.... (every scientist knows science doesn't know everything, but this does not prove your god)

So go at it! Find all the evidence you can, and I promise I will convert to any religion that can prove it is truth.

 

Buzzby

Religion is about faith, not proof. You might as well ask a pig to fly.

Here's a counterproposal: Can you prove to me that you exist? I've been asking people to do that for 40 years and not one has succeeded. So far, everyone is a figment of my imagination.

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Trocisp

I cannot prove to you that I exist, because it is, in fact, you who do not exist. And your asking me for proof that I exist is just an existential quagmire that my brain has thought up in order to further my own learning!



How'd I do?

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"No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights." - Vladimir Putin
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Sir Winston Churchill
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - Oscar Wilde
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies." - Aristotle

Buzzby

That's one of the dumbest things I've ever said to myself!

timond

If one does not want to accept proof, then there is no proof. What's the proof that this computer in front of me is real? Because others believe it too? Because I can feel it?
The film the Matrix wraps up these questions and explains a possible answer, which mathematically could make sense. But then again what is sense?

You could go around in circles all day with this.

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The Thunder From Down Under

 

macphearsome

reminds me of this comic...

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

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"the only way to achieve certainty is to amputate inquiry" - Marvin Minsky

Broliette

Truth is subjective. That's where the leap of faith comes in.

I think of it like the movie Dogma. If you KNEW and had concrete evidence, ie. "God was here.", kind of thing, you would be no more than a mindless drone abiding by his will because...you knew he existed.

He wants us to choose to follow him; to have faith in him, for that is the true test of faith and spirituality. It's just a matter of what you believe the truth is.

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Rev0lver

and if you do not do that, you burn forever.

Buzzby

Or, alternatively, you're a free man not suffering from delusions.

Rev0lver

tru dat :P