🎵Coming to your town 🎶
burgermeister
RIP local sexpot
I think your final point is very good in that scientific discovery relies on people questioning assumptions and attempting to verify or debunk them. We "encountered" fire, gravity, and electricity - I don't think we've invented them as anthropomorphic characters the same way we've invented gods. Ultimately, I do not think it's possible to find evidence of absence for God in a way that will satisfy others due to the very nature of the concept of God. I also think Pascal's wager has enough merit to it that one should try to live a moral life, but not enough that it demands piety to any one tradition.
I cannot definitively prove that the teapot doesn't exist.
Now, I also do not see any proof that the teapot is benevolent or responsible for the functioning of the universe in any way. That just doesn't seem very likely to me. I'm gonna go ahead and live my life as though the teapot does not exist, even though it very well might. I'm comfortable enough in my assumption that the teapot is irrelevant to me that I don't think I need evidence of its absence. That doesn't make the teapot's existence any more "true".
The Cold War Horse is war, obviously. Blucifer is death (killed its creator) I'm convinced that the other 2 are in the state somewhere but haven't found them yet.
The burden of proof does lie on the one that made the statement... But also absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.
Hard to believe it's true
RIP Trevor, local sexpot
Best content
RIP local sexpot