You are mistaken about how evidence and logic work.
Firstly, nobody has said anything about “indisputable fact” concerning the historical claims in the Bible of the Exodus, merely that the available evidence makes it more likely than not that the Exodus never occurred. The default position, as with anything, is that a thing does not exist until there is adequate reason to think that it does. If, in the future, we find archaeological evidence suggesting that the Exodus occurred, we’ll revise our view.
Secondly, you are making extraordinary claims, and it is foolishness to expect anybody to accept those claims without evidence. You have not provided convincing evidence.
Third, and let me be clear on this point - no poster in this thread has made unfair demands of you, nor has any poster treated you unfairly. Any poster who advanced claims as extraordinary as yours would be expected to provide extraordinary evidence. You see persecution where none exists.
First, it is ridiculous; it’s hardly our fault that you come here and start making indefensible claims that are both factually wrong and irrational. Second, this is a discussion board, we are discussing things; if we didn’t like arguing we wouldn’t be posting here in Great Debates. Third, the motto of this board is “Fighting Ignorance Since 1973”; and ignorance is what you are pushing, at best.
Of course, GEEPERS has a problem there; his claims are full of logical fallacies and just are plain factually, demonstrably wrong. If he eliminated all the fallacies, what would be left?
I am officially bowing out of this thread. You people are hammering me with responses within minutes, demanding immediate replies to everyone or else I’m dodging the charges. I don’t have the time or energy to address everyone’s charges, or construct air tight responses within seconds that pass your fallacy tests. I simply speak from the heart and share what I’ve experienced in life. You want to call that BS and make up false claims and that’s pretty disgusting, but not unexpected. And let’s face it, this thread will never die unless I leave and you get the last word in, so have at it.
I gave my evidence, you want to live in denial, that’s your perogative. It’s typical atheist behavior on here to gang up and overwhelm any Christian who dares to take on the atheists. If that amuses you, so be it. Anyone with a non-biased position can easily see that this has been nothing but a feeding frenzy as soon as I dared to make one comment. Every post here strongly suggests that this is nothing but an atheist forum extremely hostile to Bible believing Christians, and yes, there are many of us, and we don’t just believe for absolutely no reasons.
Too much negativity here. I always feel like I need a shower afterwards.
I’ll be creating a new thread on the intellectually dishonest behavior of atheists in the near future.
It’s a message board, not a quiz show. You can respond whenever you like regardless of what anybody says, and it’s your own choice to post frequently. The impatience you are seeing is because you constantly change the subject - so often that people get the impression it’s a tactical decision.
Ah, the good old right wing Christian persecution complex in action. Completely ignoring the fact that a lot of the people pointing out your errors are Christians - but you apparently think that they are secretly atheists or something.
And no one has said that you believe for “absolutely no reasons”; they just aren’t good reasons.
This is what, the fourth time you’ve left for good?
Yes yes, we’re all been horribly mean to you and if a Muslim was making the same exact claims we’d accept that and all convert to Islam and abandon our atheism, since we’re only out to get you and Christianity. Yeah…
But back in the real world, you still have not come up with a single valid metric as for why not listening to your irrational, contradictory, gainsaid claims is to not be in denial, but to join another religion with exactly as much support as yours… well that’s just silly! I mean, 90 foot Adam, how krezzzy!
Something tells me you haven’t answered because you can’t.
And we most likely all know exactly why it is that you can’t come up with any such metric.
Well, that’s just an absurdity.
We’re a rationalist forum made up of atheists, agnostics, deists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc… all of whom are hostile to biblical literalism/Fundamentalism because it’s an abdication of critical thinking and epistemology.
Oh, and the thread you’re going to start? Please make sure you do it in the Pit.
Some of us, I’m sure, would enjoy you starting the thread.
For centuries it was the majority view that Exodus did happen. But when we learned to read hieroglyphics, when we started exploring the Sinai, when we learned about the makeup of ancient Israel none of the evidence for it we’d expect to find was there. The Sinai is very good at preserving things, and the campsite of a hundred thousand or more people should show some evidence of use. But nothing there. No evidence of a migration into Canaan. Jericho exists, and has been destroyed many times (as have most ancient cities) but IIRC it wasn’t even occupied at the time of the Exodus. I believed in it when I was a kid, but the lack of evidence for it is quite clear.
GEEPERS, I’ve read this thread and the one that it split off from. You consistently misrepresent what other people are saying. If you can’t even get right what people are saying to you just a couple posts above your own, why should anybody take seriously your claims of witnessing paranormal activity? You appear to be an exceptionally unreliable witness.