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yrger · 80-89, M
@DocSavage
Aren't you going to resume our dialogue on what is evidence?
Here, I will add that man suspects what is the target of his evidence, for example - the target of his evidence is a human and not something non-human.
Imagine this scenario:
An explorer landed on an island he knew to be un-inhabited, because there has never been any report by earlier explorers of an island in that geographical location. He says to himself, "If any human had already been on the island, then he certainly could have left anywhere on the island some man-made objects no longer useful to bring back home." Then he came upon a pair of broken eye-glasses. There, the pair of broken eye-glasses is evidence to the presence earlier of a human on the island.
yrger · 80-89, M
@DocSavage
We are not getting linked.
I am talking about evidence, without bringing in God for the present.
You keep on and on bringing in God, and there is no evidence for Him according to you.
Can you understand that there has got to be a concept of evidence that applies to every issue where evidence is invoked to prove something exist or not.
After we are agreed on the concept of evidence, then we can apply it to God, to prove by evidence present or absent, that He exists or doesn't exist.
That is why the issue cannot be settled with finality, because theists and atheists don't care to agree on the concept of evidence and how it works.
Aren't you going to resume our dialogue on what is evidence?
Here, I will add that man suspects what is the target of his evidence, for example - the target of his evidence is a human and not something non-human.
Imagine this scenario:
An explorer landed on an island he knew to be un-inhabited, because there has never been any report by earlier explorers of an island in that geographical location. He says to himself, "If any human had already been on the island, then he certainly could have left anywhere on the island some man-made objects no longer useful to bring back home." Then he came upon a pair of broken eye-glasses. There, the pair of broken eye-glasses is evidence to the presence earlier of a human on the island.
yrger · 80-89, M
@DocSavage
We are not getting linked.
I am talking about evidence, without bringing in God for the present.
You keep on and on bringing in God, and there is no evidence for Him according to you.
Can you understand that there has got to be a concept of evidence that applies to every issue where evidence is invoked to prove something exist or not.
After we are agreed on the concept of evidence, then we can apply it to God, to prove by evidence present or absent, that He exists or doesn't exist.
That is why the issue cannot be settled with finality, because theists and atheists don't care to agree on the concept of evidence and how it works.