If this isn’t purely anecdotal do you have a cite for this massive persecution of atheists here in the US? As I said, from my own perspective I’m not seeing it myself.
I suppose it depends on one’s definition of ‘evidence’. Afaik there is zero evidence of brain eating zombies outside of pure fiction. There is anecdotal evidence of god which is only slightly better. So, we can make no conclusion at all about either…but at least anecdotally we can say there is much more evidence of SOME kind of higher being (since this is a world wide, cross cultural phenomena) than of brain eating zombies (for which even anecdotal evidence is, afaik, sparse).
You just WANT it to be the way you do because your own belief system and worldview are distorting your analytical abilities on this subject.
Your logic is faulty. Having corpses and brains doesn’t lead to even the most remote evidence of brain eating zombies. Conversely…
We have no conclusive evidence of any kind. However, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that SOMETHING (even if its pure psychology and simply how humans are wired, which I suspect is the case) is going on wrt a deity or deities. We can draw no final conclusions because we don’t have enough evidence either way…but we can certainly conclude that there is more here than your brain eating zombies. What is interesting is the hoops you will go too in order to deny this because of your own belief system.
Too YOU it makes no logical sense. That doesn’t mean anything at all. There are probably a lot of things that wouldn’t make logical sense to you…but that doesn’t make them imaginary. I’m guessing that many aspects of quantum physics don’t make ‘logical’ sense to you or to most people. There could be any number of very read alien life forms out there that make no ‘logical’ sense to us here…hell, I remember when some of the deep ocean vents were explored that some of the species THERE didn’t make ‘logical’ sense on first inspection.
And you claim to know all of the universe’s laws? Interesting. Fascinating really. And the singularity that was at the start of the universe? Know all about what was going on then too, ehe? You have a perfect understanding of not only all of the physical laws that are currently in place universe wide, but those that occurred in a singularity? That’s very…interesting.
How are they infinitely more plausible that a God? Perhaps they are because you want to BELIEVE they are? As to having to claim uncertainty…yeah, you do IMHO. Do you KNOW there aren’t fairies and goblins? If so…well, how?
Now, you can (and should) claim that its VERY improbable that fairies and goblins existed in the past or exist today. There is no physical evidence…only anecdotal evidence passed down through stories and legend.
But yeah…I’d say the correct answer is uncertainty tinged with skepticism. YMMV of course. But if it does you are asserting something as fact that you can’t possibly prove except by pointing to a lack of evidence.
I’m not cutting religion any breaks here. You are just trying to assert something as fact that you can’t possibly prove…which is kind of ironic since you are condemning religious types for doing the same thing.
Ah, but you see I’m NOT saying that…that is just what you are hearing. Those are two different things. You are hearing ‘religious-apologist’ stuff because you are so fixated on your absolute belief that there is no god. Again…the irony here is fairly amusing.
-XT
