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john76 · 03-20-2008, 01:55 PM

I think the sad thing is that we take really simple things and try to make them into complex things (like I did in my last posting). I said this in my first posting. Theists are like people that sit in their house and make guesses about how many people are currently sitting in the local McDonalds, without allowing that there may not be anyone there at all. Atheists take the idea that there may be no one there, and that there is no reason to think anyone is there, and then conclude (guess) from that that there 'is' no one there. The truth is that there may be a God and there may be not, but we have no way of knowing, and no answer on either side is any more likely than the other. Saying that one answer makes more 'sense' to you than the other changes nothing, because the next person could just as likely assert the opposite. The logic of the issue makes either side equally possible.

03-20-2008, 01:55 PM	#16 (permalink)
john76 Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 92	I think the sad thing is that we take really simple things and try to make them into complex things (like I did in my last posting). I said this in my first posting. Theists are like people that sit in their house and make guesses about how many people are currently sitting in the local McDonalds, without allowing that there may not be anyone there at all. Atheists take the idea that there may be no one there, and that there is no reason to think anyone is there, and then conclude (guess) from that that there 'is' no one there. The truth is that there may be a God and there may be not, but we have no way of knowing, and no answer on either side is any more likely than the other. Saying that one answer makes more 'sense' to you than the other changes nothing, because the next person could just as likely assert the opposite. The logic of the issue makes either side equally possible.