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Yes, even "reasonably contestable" is a highly subjective term not objective, and ironically is a contestable definition. Everything to some measure has to be contestable, that is the whole point of verifying claims and uncritical thinking for instance. Claims for evidence from a Christian...

* Not really, our definition of verifiable or more technically speaking our criterion, is what is different. You limit it for the most part to empirical sciences only, I don't. * So okay, mathematically logic is a not a good case, as it would be consistent with classical logic. But to make a...

Isn't that an argument from ignorance, essentially a logically fallacy? That presumes there is indeed of course, a lack of evidence, which there is not unless you define evidence with very narrow goal-posts. The main question it comes back to is what counts as evidence, and what counts as...

To get this thread a bit closer to the topic, here is a video, explaining one of the other (which I haven't really use mind you) arguments for the existence of God, helpfully someone Pm'ed me this: Follow up video: https://youtu.be/s2ULF5WixMM

Yes it does imply moral accountability, whether that be to some higher power, or some absolute standard, neither of which you would (I presume) believe exist. Well there is an absolute, it just depends on whether it is God, or the pastafarian noodle thing that you claimed to believe in. If it...

No I am not extremely naive. They aren't mutually exclusive or incompatible but they are not the same field within reality, which is what naturalism implies. Science gives one degree of explanation of reality, the arts are another, and yes language comes under that. So my point still stands. If...

i usually don't actually comment in that way on this thread, because I usually don't need to comment on something that - I agree with or - I have no knowledge about/irrelevant to me

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I do, maybe not to same degree. Please don't assume my circumstances. Well another starking assumption again, I don't require it nor demand it, but don't rule it either. But as I am convinced of the evidence for the resurrection and all that, I have come to a different conclusion. Otherwise if...

You'll never know my friend... either. Suffering does indeed dreadful, honestly I haven't probably been through as much as you, but I know people who are at the moment, suffering psychological and mentally at the moment. That is all I can say. Well at least with nihilism you take it to its...

There isn’t much I would dispute, in the first sentence. Indeed, in very of Jews for instance, Jesus is a false teacher. In the view of Christians, Mohammed (and the Ba’hai’s prophet equivalent) are both false etc. Failed prophets tend to also be false prophets. [1] Concerning people suffering...

To use your words, Yeah, no, I'm gonna need at least every single historian in the world agreeing on that one for that to even be in the slightest convincing. And since when did we appeal to authority/majority like that? And I don't recommend out-of-hand dismissals, there are just about as...

So? I didn't disagree with what you said. Depends on whose looking glass you are using. I wouldn't say Muslims are being looked down, in specific, except maybe by the SylviaB types. And one thing to note: When I agree, I tend to not have much to say. When I don't have an opinion on...

The whole point of a miracle is that it unprobable. Rather than worried about whether it is a miracle, the main concern is can such a miracle be ascribed to a supernatural deity. Some are, some can be loosely only by an extension of "working through the laws of nature" or using the expertise of...

Not necessarily, a divine force could operate within the bounds of laws of physics, it doesn't have to. So it goes both ways. The whole idea of a "divine force", is very similar with the idea of the logos (the Word), as such, present in classical Judaism (and of course Christianity), in the...

Concerning the underlying, not necessarily, but yes miracles have a purpose. And yes miracles aren't designed to fit the laws of the universe in a normal sense. (Although I find that some miracles can be more of a timing/knowledge related or speeding/slowing up the timeframe of natural processes...

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Maybe, I look up verses in the Quran, because I want to explain them, especially Surah 9:30, which is the first one I quote. The verse actually says, that God is not a liar like men, nor one to change his mind like men. From as early as Genesis 3:15, God makes it clear that he is going a...

http://www.gotquestions.org/God-heal-amputees.html The 5 assumptions addressed (I think there are actually 7 but ok): 1. God has never healed an amputee. 2. God is required to make healing, of a specific nature; because of his goodness. 3. God still performs miracles today. 4. God always...

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