Excellent post by Aron Ra: We have to reject all the logical fallacies on which religious beliefs depend. We have adhere to the rules of science. So we can disprove a positive claim, and the Bible makes many claims that have been conclusively disproved, the flood, the tower of Babel, the Exodus, and so on …and on, and on. But we needn’t bother trying to prove a negative claim -like ‘there is no god’. In science, there is only what is supported by evidence and what is not supported. Whatever is not supported by evidence doesn’t yet warrant serious consideration. Come back when you have something of substance. These are some of the rules of logic to which we must adhere. For example: “Positive claims require positive evidence; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. -Carl Sagan “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” -Christopher Hitchens
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:55:02 +0000
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