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Originally Posted by willravel
I see a car cross the bridge first. Bam. Evidence that it's safe. I've never been the first to cross a bridge. If I were to be the first to cross a bridge, I'd probably check it out first. You're reaching here.
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You know the 35w bridge had about 140,000 people cross it every day and was 40 years old and was also undergoing fairly regular inspection. Bam, indeed. I thought you were a disciple of science here, that's not a very scientific strategy. One might even call it irrational, though i wouldn't.
You're reaching here if you can't acknowledge that you don't have any way to know whether a bridge will collapse while you are on it. Why do you cross bridges, will? Are you really that careless with your life? Don't you have a family?
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It's not like I was a theist for the first 17 years of my life, or like my dad is a pastor or anything. Oh... wait...
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There's a difference between having experience as a theist and thinking that the experience that you had as a theist is functionally equivalent to the experience of every other theist ever. You went to church for 17 years. So what? That doesn't mean that you're qualified to claim that every theist automatically looks to god before anything else when they come into contact with uncertainty, which is what it seemed like you were trying to claim up above in #40.
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Are you talking about "self" and all that spiritual stuff? Then no, there's absolutely no evidence.
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No, i'm talking about you, existing. Anything existing. Nothing spiritual. Prove it. Use science. GO!
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Things that have no evidence that they exist tend not to exist.
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Nope, things that don't exist tend not to exist. Things whose existence is unsubstantiated tend to either remain unsubstantiated, or somehow get "evidenced" into acceptance. C'mon man, if you're going to try to champion science, at least try and be a bit scientific about things.