And this is the central thing. You only need to provide evidence for a claim if you want it taken seriously by someone who doesn't already accept it. If they already do - our biologist talking to another biologist - or they don't care whether you do or not, not need at all.
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The latter is most evident with religion. Religious people are not required in any way to provide evidence that God exists to be free to say that he does. They are only required to do this if they want the claim taken seriously by other people or society more widely.
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"If however, you are making an argument that God exists, evidence is required to be taken seriously" Not in this day and age!
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Again, I am saying how we should think about things, not how people already are.
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Oh, I agree with you, just remarking on these ideologically fractured times we live in.
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I agree. But regarding the proof for God, The Resurrection etc.. that’s where I go to the connect the dots analogy. One can lay out a proof, and connect the dots in a certain way to support certain beliefs but can never do so in a way that compels belief. That’s why it’s faith.
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Right, so no-one needs to take this claim seriously.
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I imagine you can somehow prove that rational thinking takes you to an agnostic position. From there anything is a leap of faith...
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Agnosticism is a rationale position. Faith is referred to multiple times as a gift. But if faith is fundamentally a gift that means that there isn’t a proof., sufficient reason, yes, but not a proof.
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John 20:29: Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
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Love John.
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Evidence, and also the graph of your estimate of the number of gods/goddesses should include error bars based on your experiments statistical power. Standard practice in the Experimental Theology literature is a width of 2 sigma.
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