• OhSnapKracklePopped@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    There is a huge different between “god doesn’t exist” and “proven there is no need for a god.”

    Depending who you ask, there is plenty of evidence. And you don’t even need to ask the Ken Ham’s of the world—there’s literally dedicated fields of study in philosophy arguing this.

    The whole “one bad apple spoils the bunch” comes from a series Descartes’ essays trying to figure out if God can be real.

    Plus, everyday people have experiences that they interpret as religious events. Coincidence, whatever, that could apply—you can’t, with 100% certainty prove them wrong. You can only assume based off the information you have and your preconceived notions of the world.

    Religion is complicated. People’s faith makes it even moreso.

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        1 year ago

        Yes it does. That’s why eyewitness testimony is rocky at best and is rarely counted as hard evidence. This is especially true the further back the witness has to recall to get the memory.

        You also have to ask multiple experts to agree on something before anything with evidence gains weight, but evidence looks different to experts too. That’s why almost everything has some form of division.