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burden of proof

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-01 2:55 ID:NrqcfiTS

excuse for debate club fags and defendents in court, amirite?

Name: RedCream 2007-08-17 4:35 ID:QHhKR226

>>96
We'll start with you since you're more open to the concept that you're wrong, unlike the other guys who are too busy sucking some professor's or priest's cock.

Firstly, we do know about the significance of preponderance of evidence since we have common experience with evidentiary things.  The larger something is in all senses, the more evidence it leaves behind or around.  It then ONLY STANDS TO REASON that something as pervasive as Gilgamesh would leave evidence literally everywhere.  There would be at least a few bits of evidence.  (But no, we have ZERO.  Absolutely none.)

Once again, we're back to you making an outlandish claim:  that you offer an example of something that is definably huge but leaves no evidence.  Give me another example of that in real life, other than Gilgamesh (for which there's no evidence so I don't know why people think that's a valid example in the first place).

Allegorically, I'm telling you to stop asserting that there's a bird that doesn't leave feathers all over the place, which is the common experience, unless you can provide evidence of a bird that doesn't do that.

If you continue to assert that it's intellectually valid to claim that the MOST IMPORTANT thing about the universe can be undetectable, then there's nothing more you can say.  It's a silly assertion and I hope you stop promoting it.  Anything so undetectable (say, how did YOU find out about it, anyways?) would have no consequence to the universe in the first place.

Secondly, you didn't learn your own lesson about neutrinos:  the delay between proposal and detection was only about 25 years, and the truth of them was only important to about a thousand people in the world.  In huge point-making contrast, the delay for this god-thing is about 9000 years and hasn't ended yet, despite the rather involved searching by perhaps 50 billion people over that time.  Hmm!  25000 man-years, versus 450 trillion man-years.  Now, really.  How big does the latter number have to grow before you finally relent and admit you're chasing something that doesn't exist?

So, finally, we're back to my assertion.  If you fail to find evidence for something that must have dropped a lot of evidence around, you're going to have to admit you're chasing something that doesn't exist.  Humans are also well-exampled with their foibles, emotional misconceptions, and outright frauds.  The search for "god" is just a search for the Human lie.

The battle to chase "god" out of the Human mind continues.  Sadly, we're still fairly far from an acceptable victory in that matter.  Divinity remains an Human fiction but Humans loooove their fiction.

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