Evidence for God from Science

Further, I've been around enough Christians to know that what I have phenomenally experienced of God's presence, looks to be very similar to others. Poindexter sincerely assures you that aliens have abducted and probed him. Poindexter knows others who are also sincere and sure of their remarkably s...

A visually blind person if/when they deny the existence of visually seeing things is speaking from a lack of experience. Likewise, the spiritually blind person if/when they deny the existence of something spiritual is speaking from a lack of experience. Only one group of people are speaking from a ...

Because I acknowledge that not all true things are necessarily testable, and that meaningful statements can be made by speakers - meaningful at least to themselves - based on their subjective experience even if they can't demonstrate them objectively to others. But that wouldn't apply to "publ...

Perci, How is your position distinguishable from A. J. Ayer's logical positivism, i.e., the notion that the only statements that are meaningful and can be regarded as true in any legitimate sense are either analytical (as opposed to synthetic -- "All triangles have three sides" vs "T...

In such a situation I'd tell the blind person to arrange an experiment where the blind person gets several seeing people to tell them what object they are holding without touching the object. And you think that ought to be enough to convince a blind person who is skeptical of vision? Or something i...

In such a situation I'd tell the blind person to arrange an experiment where the blind person gets several seeing people to tell them what object they are holding without touching the object.

Interestingly, many Christians (notwithstanding experiences of a spiritual kind claimed by other religions) swear to a spiritual awareness that seems as real, if not more real at times, than sight, smell, touch, taste and sound. How does one rule out the possibility of an illusion or delusion when ...

So is it also fair to say that you'd only feel comfortable affirming knowledge that you can be 100% certain of? I would say so, yes. That includes things that I could be 100% certain of but only subjectively - if somehow I was able to gain an insight into another person's mind and to know that the ...

Given I can neither truly know or verify another person, then I cannot affirm that others truly exist. Is that an acceptable proposition to you? This is similar to Descarte's "brain in a jar" (he didn't call it that, because he was French) thought experiment, with a little bit of the Turi...

PS - you may also be talking about Guillain-Barre syndrome , which is a truly awful and imperfectly understood side effect of some flu vaccines (at least I think it is limited to flu vaccines - it's at least possible to get the syndrome through becoming infected with flu). The only comfort most of u...

I'm certainly not making a statement against all vaccinations. I think we need to look at each vaccination on its own. I haven't looked into other vaccinations, but the flu vaccine, at least the vaccine here in the US, has ingredients that have made it easy for me to refuse the vaccine. Do all othe...

Jac, I think part of the problem here is that we've gone off on a tangent and I'm now trying to explain my position regarding all branches of theism in the broadest possible terms - we've come a long way from specifics. Regarding theism in general, if I can couch my position in a pidgin second-order...

That's not agnosticism. You've misunderstood the term, just as most "atheists" misunderstand the term "atheism." Agnosticism is the belief that it is impossible to know whether or not God exists . To say, "I don't know whether or not God exists" isn't agnosticism. It's...

Ya, rubberneck claiming to be agnostic would have made a lot more sense. But then I think you'd find people here can't take that position seriously. It's a middle ground of uncertainty, which must be a awkward place to be. It's also a middle ground of honesty and necessity, depending on the subject...

I could be wrong but I don't believe Jac was referring to agnosticism (and neither was I for that matter). But I'll let him answer for himself. Post edit: I wish you (and every other agnostic/atheist) would simply stop referencing many gods. The idea is as ridiculous as it is contradictory. It has ...