I Am Christian

I've just had a pretty hilarious conversation with a creationist who accepted that the burden of proof is on the one making the positive claim but insisted that he didn't need to provide proof for god on the basis that he was not convinced by my evidence for evolution.
Why are creationists so afraid of the burden of proof?

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Northwest · M

I am an Atheist, but will never make an argument that God does not exist. I am making a guess, based on my research, using my education and the research I've done (and that includes books, etc.). It's still however a guess, because one thing I know, is that I don't know what I don't know.

Religion is about blind faith. You can neither prove it, nor disprove it, again, because we have not discovered the definitive laws of nature/physics yet. It's work in progress.

Until then, I would say that we should live and let live, and by that I mean both sides.

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi Northwest
you sound more like an agnostic.
Just sayin
best wishes
:)

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Northwest · M

@sogdianrock: No, I'm an atheist. I said that I am making a guess, and my guess, based on the PhD I have in Physics, is that our existence is a singularity, or a singularity within each of a number of intersecting universes. This precludes God, or any notion of a "higher" being.

I am not arrogant enough to pretend to KNOW the answer.

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi Northwest
Wow well done! I believe in The Multiverse also! Do you think we are mathematical in essence and so occupy no space and have no mass so infinite universes can all occupy the same location - whatever that means! Who needs God to have a Reality Party!
Best wishes
:)

Northwest · M

@Celine:

For sure. I've never seen any compelling reason to believe that he does exist, but that doesn't mean i can assert on any evidentiary basis that he doesn't

I believe the two parts of your statement mean the same thing, but I can't be sure, so we may be having a language issue (but your English is excellent BTW). Can you please retype it in your native language, I'll see if I can decipher it :-)

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Northwest · M

@Celine: Thank you. This is what I'm trying to say here.

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi Celine
Santa - there is hearsay he exists and a convincing backstory but I gotta say I sceptical. Still live and let live. I mean that i don't see evidence that santa exists but i don't have evidence that proves he doesn't.
Happy Christmas
:)

Northwest · M

@sogdianrock:

I believe in The Multiverse also! Do you think we are mathematical in essence and so occupy no space and have no mass so infinite universes can all occupy the same location - whatever that means! Who needs God to have a Reality Party!
Best wishes

Multiverse is theoretical and at this point, it consists of math only. It seems plausible to me, and mathematically speaking, the universes do not co-exist, at least they do not all share the same space/time dimensions (which leaves the possibility of colliding universes).

I think it will be decades before we can move from theory, to an attempt to start proving some of these theories. That's OK. It took a century between the time George Boole came up with Boolean logic, and our first application of that theoretical branch of math to computing (and nearly all computing circuits are based on it, not to mention a good portion of software).