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Message 31 of 39 (905458)
01-27-2023 9:21 AM 		Reply to: Message 27 by Phat
01-26-2023 2:44 PM

Re: Can I Get A Witness?
Phat writes:
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I know. I was never schooled in the disciplines of evidenced responses and/or footnotes.
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Schooling helps, but isn't necessary by any means.
In fact, schooling can often leave out the greatest virtue required in order to make evidenced responses:
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You need to accept that it's okay to be wrong
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If you don't think it's okay to be wrong... you won't be "looking for the truth" - you'll be looking for "something you can back up with anything that could get people to think the way you want them to think."
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And that's not "evidenced" - that's manipulation.
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Evidence and "being wrong" go hand-in-hand.
That's how progress is made - corrections (learning) on previously held methods (being wrong.)
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Message 34 of 39 (905470)
01-27-2023 12:24 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Tangle
01-15-2023 12:51 PM

Tangle writes:
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Personally, I find the lack of evidence for an interventionist god where we should find such evidence - such as payer works, miracles happen, god changes the bread and wine into his body and blood at the eucharist, god loves me etc - actually is evidence founded on absence.
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Yup.
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Well, that and the philosophically unchallengeable Eric The God-Eating Penguin
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God can't exist because of Eric The God-Eating Magic Penguin. Since Eric is God-Eating by definition, he has no choice but to eat God. So, if God exists, He automatically ceases to exist as a result of being eaten. Unless you can prove that Eric doesn't exist, God doesn't exist. Even if you can prove that Eric doesn't exist, that same proof will also be applicable to God. There are only two possibilities - either you can prove that Eric doesn't exist or you can't - in both cases it logically follows that God doesn't exist.
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--Mark
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