Blind little men walking in circles. You are nothing.
Don't be ableist. We say 'severely visually impaired' these days.
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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
Frank Zappa
"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." —Voltaire
"They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved." —Sebastian Gorka
I've consistently said that the absence of evidence supporting a claim justifies the conclusion that the claim is false, until or unless evidence is forthcoming. At the same time I've been very clear that 'proof' which justifies this conclusion is the absence of evidence for the claim itself.
Ok. The absence of material evidence in support of claims for supernatural entities justifiably supports the conclusion that supernatural entities do not exist.
Indeed, a justifiable conclusion about a claim.
What was I even thinking? Was I even thinking?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
"In this case, the observation of a single black swan would be the undoing of the logic of any system of thought, as well as any reasoning that followed from that underlying logic."
You are finished whether you are aware of it or not...
Your swan arguments only indicate your utter impotence. Who are "you" to say there is no God?
You don't understand the Black Swan Fallacy. It is here used to defeat the argument that lack of evidence does not logically lead to proof of non-existence. In other words, never having seen a black swan is not proof that black swans do not exist. This applies no matter what you replace 'black swan' with. For this reason I will not say "there is no God", and the vast majority of atheists will not say so either. What I (and they) will say is that in the absence of convincing evidence of a supernatural creator we have no reason to believe there is one.The evidence needs to be falsifiable and reproducible. As an example I have proposed an experiment which - depending on its result - would make me believe in a God.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould