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Originally Posted by Destroyer
the burden of proof rests with the believer, homie
so, have at it.
I'll wait
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The believer believes by faith. If evidence was provided that God exists, faith would be negated and rendered useless. But then again, we're assuming our cognitive apparatus isn't meddling with how we perceive reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_spectrum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
Not to mention, by the way, that everything is based on faith. You thinking you'll wake up tomorrow is based on faith - it's based on nothing.
You have absolutely zero evidence or proof that you'll wake up tomorrow. What you would do in an attempt to convince me you'll wake up tomorrow is show me data you collected from the past of you waking up every morning since you were born and then provide probability of what would happen tomorrow. Sadly, this, along with everything that has ever happened in the history of existence and all our predictions about the future fall prey to Hume's Problem of induction -
"Presupposing that a sequence of events in the future will occur as it always has in the past (for example, that the laws of physics will hold as they have always been observed to hold). Hume called this the principle uniformity of nature."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
The burden of proof lies with the atheist because you have to disprove the existence of God, and if you were any good at it, we'd all be atheists by now, wouldn't we? Some things aren't suppose to be based on evidence, or science. Somethings are based on emotions, feelings.