Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 64 (9164 total)
2 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,787 Year: 4,044/9,624 Month: 915/974 Week: 242/286 Day: 3/46 Hour: 0/1


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Subjective Evidence of Gods
nlerd
Member (Idle past 3630 days)
Posts: 48
From: Minnesota
Joined: 03-03-2010


(1)
Message 266 of 468 (630677)
08-26-2011 11:06 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Straggler
07-15-2011 8:18 PM


Straggler writes:
1) What subjective evidence in favour of the existence of gods is there? Can someone provide some actual examples of this form of evidence?
Jesus appearing in my soup?
Straggler writes:
2) Is subjective evidence limited to entities that can be empirically detected or not?
Subjective evidence is limited only to the imagination.
Straggler writes:
On what basis (aside from belief) is the cause of these subjective experiences attributed to supernatural entities...
I don't think subjective evidence is only attributed to the supernatural, if I tell someone that I was chased through the woods by a orangutan with pink dyed fur and no one was there to verify that it happened that'd be subjective evidence.
Straggler writes:
4) Is belief itself a form of evidence on which we can justify belief?
Not at all, I'm pretty sure now that I think about it I only BELIEVED that was a pink orangutan at the time. I'm pretty sure it was actually cousin Bob in last years Halloween costume.
Here is a question for you though. If the only evidence that something exists IS subjective does that mean that it DOESN'T exist? What if say a group of researcher discovers a fairy that appears every 10,000 years in the sewers of Detroit and grants 8 wishes to the first person who talks to it, but the researchers die on the way out of the sewers due to a flash flood. It actually did happen but there is no record of it.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 1 by Straggler, posted 07-15-2011 8:18 PM Straggler has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 268 by Straggler, posted 08-27-2011 3:07 AM nlerd has not replied

Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024