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Convenience? what could be more convenient that a god you believe you prove by making up basically anything you want as evidence.
No, gods are not possible, and by your own words you completely dismiss the infallible evidence you say you have provided when you say you don 't know if god exists.
Fairy tales are for children.
So your non belief is so weak you cannot even admit it is possible. I am glad at least that my beliefs are strong.
Your sentence may have been more accurate if you have cut it short by two words. You have not given a single scrap of evidence argument data or reasons to suggest there even IS a god there. Despite us all asking over and over and over.
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Unfortunately most atheists are not even able to admit that the possibility exists.
Then take it up with "most atheists" as I have never once precluded the possibility. There is a massive difference however between saying "X is possible" and "We have a single reason at all to think X IS".
Ask yourself, is it "possible" that when you leave the house today a pink with yellow pokka dot car driven by a goblin will run you over? Yes it is "possible". Have you any reason... even the tiniest reason at all.... to think this WILL happen? No. Not even a bit of it.
Same thing. Is it "possible" there is a god? Of course, I never claimed otherwise. Is there even a single tiny reason whatsoever to think there IS one howeveR? No. Not even a bit of it.
I am not sure why you keep doing this, but you do seem to have a penchant for ignoring everything I am saying, and moaning about what "most atheists" say. Is there a particular reason you ignore my text and just attack atheist Straw Men instead of anything I have written?
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You just keep saying I have offered no evidence yet I've mentioned many things.
"mentioning things" is not "giving evidence". If it was then lawyers could go into a court room and simply say "I think the accused is guilty because: Teddy Bears, apples, Reality TV, Diesel and stardust" and then just walk out.
One has to do more than simply mention things. Giving evidence is a three step process as follows:
1) State a clear claim.
2) State a clear list of things that support that claim
3) Explain exactly how the things listed in 2 support what was claimed in 1.
Not as follows:
1) Make a vague claim.
2) Mention some stuff and leave.
My life changed so dramatically. As they say from black to white literally. You might say I could have done all that without God, but I didn't and I know in my heart how God has changed my outlook and created a new me. I'm sure there are many like me too so I'm not really so special in that regard.
There are certainly more like you, people who think God changed their life. I know some personally. When it comes down to it though, they can't prove that God did anything for them though except give them a warm, fuzzy feeling in their heart and that's really the belief in God that did that. I had a warm, fuzzy feeling in my heart when I was a child and believed in Santa Claus.
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But your argument lacks the main point...where we started. Try starting there first.
Are you talking about how life started? It's a little harder to say because we can observe life evolving before our very eyes and examine why it's happening but we can't observe firsthand how life started. However, abiogenesis seems pretty likely.
By replicating what are believed to be the initial conditions of Earth, scientists observed complex biochemicals forming. Remember that this was happening across most or all of the planet for billions of years. The first life or predecessor to life only had to be a chemical that was capable of replicating and mutating, a primitive form of RNA. It didn't have to be (and probably wasn't) anything like even the simplest life today. That evolved later.
My life changed so dramatically. As they say from black to white literally. You might say I could have done all that without God, but I didn't and I know in my heart how God has changed my outlook and created a new me. I'm sure there are many like me too so I'm not really so special in that regard.
I'm exactly like you in that my life went from black to white.
I just had to go at it from the inverse: as soon as I dropped the "god" stone, I felt free.
So your non belief is so weak you cannot even admit it is possible. I am glad at least that my beliefs are strong.
That seems an odd thing to say. I am an atheist and cannot say that it is impossible for a god to exist, but the likelihood seems extremely remote. I could just as well say that there is a planet made of solid iridium in the Andromeda Galaxy and state that I believe it and you can't disprove it; therefore, it must be true.
That seems an odd thing to say. I am an atheist and cannot say that it is impossible for a god to exist, but the likelihood seems extremely remote. I could just as well say that there is a planet made of solid iridium in the Andromeda Galaxy and state that I believe it and you can't disprove it; therefore, it must be true.
I wouldn't mind having a bucket of dirt from that planet.
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