Re: QUESTION FOR RELIGIONISTS

"Michael" <newsuser3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i en meddelelse 
news:pan.2008.03.05.18.31.17.557496@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:54:42 +0000, BIll M wrote:
>
>> I challenge any religionist to supply "objective verifiable evidence" 
>> that
>> any God is real and exists outside of the imaginations of religionists.
>
> I challenge any challenger of any religionist to supply something that
> cannot be supplied; let's say prove the existence of sound that is
silent,
> or make a gold coin out of silver.  I already know that I have carefully
> chosen my "straw man" so that you cannot comply; that is the purpose of
> this exercise.

What a very strange response.

>
>
>> IF there is a REAL God he certainly would supply some "objective 
>> verifiable
>> evidence"!
>
> Hoist by your own petard.  Bad logic, in other words.  Since you do not
> believe in god (or if you do not believe in god) then you can have no
> opinion regarding what real gods do.

But you do, and clearly his point is that you have no evidence.


>
>
>> Could it be that Gods only exist in people's imaginations?
>
> Depending on how you set it up, I suppose anything is possible.

You seem to be suggesting that it is dishonest for a non-believer to point

out that the believer has no evidence.  Whatever the reason that there is
no 
evidence, the fact remains that there is no evidence; you even admit it 
above.  Very odd defense.