Re: SO MANY GODS

"Christopher A.Lee" <calee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:33:30 +1100, "Jeckyl" <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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>>"Christopher A.Lee" <calee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> I'm not the one who keeps turning "in the absence of evidence there is
>>> no reason to believe something" into the straw man "certainty
>>> something doesn't exist".
>>> Or assuming that this is somehow equivalent and opposite to believing
>>> something in the absence of evidence.
>>
>>That is exactly what Midwinter is objecting to (as I understand, and I
>>agree) .. turning lack of evidence into an assertion of non-existence.
And
>>the equally invalid assertion the lack of evidence implies existence .
>>Without evidence, all we can say is that we do not know.
>
> AND IT'S A FRIKKING STRAW MAN.

Its not a strawman .. its how logic works.  Perhaps you need to read up on

that.