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Thread #131699   Message #3021913
Posted By: John P
02-Nov-10 - 04:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Aren't you the one who said that visits from Aliens are more likely than God?

Actually, I said that there is more evidence for intelligent beings on other planets than there is for god. The logic seems pretty straightforward to me -- we have hard evidence that it is possible to have sentient life on a planet. It's not a big stretch to imagine that it might exist on more than one planet.

There is no evidence which you will accept. Obviously there is plenty of proof that BILLIONS of others will accept.

As I've said many times, I will accept lots of things as evidence, even evidence that wouldn't be at all scientific. All those billions of people who believe in god -- what's their reason for doing so? Is it based on anything other than being told that there's a god when they were children? What's your evidence? Why is this such a hard question for you? Why believe in something when there are simpler reasons for the observed phenomena?

I repeat: evidence for the existence of something isn't something we get to vote on. I'm not at all swayed by your argument that the majority opinion should hold sway. A majority of people once believed that the world was flat. By your reasoning, the world was flat back then.