[Arryn]

Originally posted by spirokeat:

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Arryn the agnostic and skeptic

Surely as a skeptic you would be first in the house to put forward possibilities of how something could be outside the boundries of a prescribed theory ?

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Not my job. The burden of PROOF is upon those making the fantastical claims. If you say that you see and talk to a invisible, 6-armed, purple rabbit (or a deity), it's *your* problem to prove it. If I claim to have discovered cold fusion, it's my responsibility to prove it (provide evidence).

Skeptics study evidence to ascertain if the evidence is real.

There is NO evidence of diety, only hearsay. Until such time as there is quantifiable evidence, diety remains a fanciful concept that can neither be proved, nor disproved.

BTW, to the ancient Greeks, Zeus was as real as Allah is to folks today. If they were suffering from mass delusion, then logically so are all believers today. And if today's believers aren't delusional, then by corollary, neither were the ancient Greeks, and thus modern Judeo-Christian-Islam is wrong and there are many gods. Ergo, either way, religion is a falsehood. Prove otherwise. With hard evidence that can be subjected to scientific (or logical) testing.

Have fun.