the ones ive met yes.. not u specifically
There are all sorts of atheists, comrade.
There is nothing wrong with being skeptical, questions are a good thing!..
Then you should understand my point exactly.
i think that its what people consider "evidence" that is the problem..
Exactly. Evidence should be able to be verified and tested under controlled conditions or in other words, empirical evidence.
Empirical evidence is:
• Evidence that can be independently verified through objective means.
• Evidence that can be independently verified by anyone who chooses to do so.
• Evidence that exists of its own accord regardless of one's belief in it or not.
The only kind of evidence that is valid is evidence that is empirically gathered.
Things that should NOT be considered evidence:
• Anecdotal Evidence, i.e. hearsay.
• The Bible or any other holy book.
• Faith.
i guess to sum it up, evidence is in the eye of the beholder..
No, see above. Evidence must be able to be verified through objective means or it is not evidence.
take global warming for instance, scientists bring up evidence upon evidence that its happening yet it gets tossed to the side as "oh its been happening forever" and theres still debate on wether its really happening.. see what i mean??
Global warming is not an issue of lack of evidence, in fact there is overwhelming evidence that suggests it is real and the vast majority of the scientific community agrees it is factual. The issue with Global Warming (GW) is political. The only debate is between a small community of people, funded by political institutions, trying to dismiss or water down scientific research that suggests GW. (There have been a number of “scientific” research papers proven to be fraudulent).
i could bring you a video of ufo'z and they would be light anomalies and you would then go on and say "ill believe it when i get abducted" or "ill believe it when i see one
A video does not necessarily prove the existence of UFOs because we all know that in today’s age even amateurs can create/alter compelling videos from their home computers.
"ill believe it when i get one to say my name" or "ill believe it when it gives me the winning lotto numbers" justification is easy to change "evidence" into anybodies favor..
I wouldn’t say any of those things; I would say we need to conduct further tests, under controlled conditions, to try to verify these claims.
some sort of evidence of course, i dont believe everything i read or hear.. but if u video taped something flying out of your ass that had bat wingz and hornz, even if it was blurry, id give u the benefit of the doubt instead of justifying it as your bowel reaction to taco bell..
Really? You wouldn’t consider the possibility that I may have created/altered a video in the hopes to fool people?
can that be applied to your skepticism of ghosts also?
Yes. I know one atheist who believes in ghosts. Remember comrade, Atheist SIMPLY means
the lack of a belief in a god or gods. That’s it.
scientists agree that the scientific method itself is INCOMPLETE because it cant test for everything..
Excuse me? Please elaborate.
It is my understanding that the Scientific Method (SM) is pretty simple and can be applied to all things.
Click
this link for more info regarding the SM.
The scientific method has four steps
1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of a hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.
Why is this incomplete?
scientists used to think the atom was the smallest thing in the world till they opened that up..
Thanks to the scientific method.
BTW, just because
scientists have been wrong, does not mean science or the scientific method is not always right. Human error, currupt data, inconclusive data, etc. are to blame. Not the SM or science.
i think that people now a dayz have a problem saying "i dont know" so they look for the first explanation of what someone else concludes even if theres a contradicting theory or explanation..
I agree, which is why there is religion and many other beliefs that lack evidence.
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