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Let's cut to the chase. Do you have any evidence?

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I feel like we've been beating around the bush for... 6000 years!

Can you please either provide some evidence for your supernatural beliefs, or admit that you have no evidence?

If you believe there once was a talking donkey (Numbers 22) could you please provide evidence?

If you believe there once was a zombie invasion in Jerusalem (Mat 27) could you please provide evidence?

If you believe in the flying horse (Islam) could you please provide evidence?

Walking on water, virgin births, radioactive spiders who give you superpowers, turning water into wine, turning iron into gold, demons, goblins, ghosts, hobbits, elves, angels, unicorns and Santa.

Can you PLEASE provide evidence?

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scourge99 wrote: No, you haven't. Danmark has questioned your consistency on this matter and you've shown that you are a hypocrite. Danmark asked whether you would trust the testimony of other holy books, belief systems, or religions and you refused to answer directly. Its clear to me and everyone else reading your responses that you are irrationally biased towards Christian testimony of supernatural claims and not any other. Yet you claim that testimony is strong evidence regardless of the religion or holy book. That inconsistency makes you a hypocrite, or perhaps worse, a liar.


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But unlike you, i am not a hypocrite who selectively accepts testimony from their preferred religion but rejects testimony from other sources.

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I've explained exactly why you are a hypocrite or are inconsistent.


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Re: Let's cut to the chase. Do you have any evidence?

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[Replying to post 1386 by Goose]

[Replying to post 1408 by no evidence no belief]

This whole debate is pointless.

Unless someone can produce an empirical method of distinguishing between supernatural causes and unknown natural causes, no amount of talking donkeys or zombie revivals can ever serve as empirical evidence for the existence of the supernatural.

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FarWanderer wrote: [Replying to post 1386 by Goose]

[Replying to post 1408 by no evidence no belief]

This whole debate is pointless.

Unless someone can produce an empirical method of distinguishing between supernatural causes and unknown natural causes, no amount of talking donkeys or zombie revivals can ever serve as empirical evidence for the existence of the supernatural.
Especially if the central tenant of their dogma is faith (a belief grounded in admitting there is no evidence for its supernatural claims).

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This whole debate is pointless.
It's only 140+ pages and 1400+ posts... give it chance.

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[Replying to FarWanderer]
Farwanderer wrote: This whole debate is pointless.
32,218 views and counting. This debate is hardly pointless.
Image "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this." -- Albert Einstein -- Written in 1954 to Jewish philosopher Erik Gutkind.

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32,218 views and counting.
Just goes to show how much people like to rubber neck train wrecks.

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keithprosser3 wrote:
32,218 views and counting.
Just goes to show how much people like to rubber neck train wrecks.
And ignore the meaning (definition) of faith.

How bizarre.

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[Replying to post 1 by no evidence no belief]

Can you please either provide some evidence for your supernatural beliefs, or admit that you have no evidence?
With pleasure.

These are two of over 390 unique incidents and events referenced in Supernatural events which proves God’s power over created matter.

Some examples:

Snake Talks -- Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.

Donkey Talks - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Global Flood Kills All But Eight People – - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Total Darkness for Three Days - - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Devastating Plagues Strike Egypt – Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.

Mass Migration and the Red Sea Suddenly Parts for Crossing - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Strange Food (Manna) Provides Daily Bread - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.

Commandments Etched on Stone Tablets - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.

Moses Talks With God on Mount Sinai - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Jericho City Walls Collapse at Loud Sound - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.

Joseph Interprets Dreams of Prisoners - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Man Vanishes and Reappears 12 Miles Away - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


The Face of Moses Shined - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Jesus Ascends Into Heaven - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Enoch Never Dies - - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Tabitha, Get Up! - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.



Dead Man Brought Back to Life - - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Virgin birth - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.


Resurrection - Is there a natural explanation? No. Then is can only be a supernatural act by God.

Need I say more??

NOW, can you give natural explanations for these events?

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[Replying to post 1411 by JohnA]
Especially if the central tenant of their dogma is faith (a belief grounded in admitting there is no evidence for its supernatural claims).
Are you claiming to believe nothing?? I would suggest that you think about your own beliefs.

It is common knowledge that one's evidence almost exclusively consists of the totality of propositions that one knows and the evidence we would accept are that 'evidence' that justifies our belief. In other words ‘reason to believe’ and ‘evidence’ are more or less the same thing i.e. evidence justifies belief.

This would mean that atheists, for example, will only accept the evidence that justifies their belief. The further consequence is that they will simply not accept any evidence of supernatural acts as described in Scripture because it does not 'feed' their existing beliefs.

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He asked for evidence.
What you are doing is: can you give a natural example of why Edward's skin started to sparkle in sunlight ? No ? then that's my evidence Twilight is real muwhahaha.
Please.

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