I'm not talking about extinct animals, or buried cities. I'm talking about things that we know exist in the here and now.
Ask yourself this very simple question... is there ANYTHING that we KNOW for CERTAIN which we do not have some sort of empirical evidence for? The answer is NO. Everything that we KNOW exists, we have a way of verifying. Gravity, atoms, clouds, tomatoes, bulldogs... all these things can be proposed and verified through testable, demonstrable methods.
On the other hand, all the things that we DO NOT know for CERTAIN exist - astrology, ghosts, ESP, alien abductions, bigfoot, GODS - we have no evidence of. In fact, our attempts to verify their existence always fail, or worse, indicate that they DO NOT exist. Therefore;
Things we know exist = we have evidence of.
Things we do not know exist = we have no evidence of.
By following this simple proof it is clearly impossible to make the claim that we KNOW a god exists. The best we can say is we hope a god exists.
2007-06-19
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