Archbishop of Cantebury - STFU !

[expat]

In the essence of the discussion, no.

There’s an equal amount of evidence for the existence of both.

There most certainly is not. I personally have had evidence for the existence of the tooth fairy, whereas I have not seen this god person perform any miracles.

[Moscow Mule]

There most certainly is not. I personally have had evidence for the existence of the tooth fairy, whereas I have not seen this god person perform any miracles.

Well, if you'd been around when Moses was, you'd have the same amount of evidence.

[Moscow Mule]

nonsense, get an education please

Tosh.

[sasguru]

Is the existence of the tooth fairy falsifiable?

No but generally the scientific method does not posit random "things" to be falsified. As we can explain God as a human cultural artefact then the theory to be falsified is that God is NOT a human cultural artefact, in which case you would have to prove that the events that various religions claim to be true from their holy books e.g. the virgin birth actually happened.

To put it another way - why isn't it possible that some being planted the spark from which you evolved (admitted, it was probably more of a squib). The God illusion may well be a "cultural artefact", but the possibility of there being something more powerful in the universe than humans cannot be denied by anybody with a grasp of statistics and the number of planets in our galaxy alone.
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Ah! So "God" is your term for the possibility of extra terrestrial intelligence. In that case I completely agree that statistically speaking there is probably some non-earthly intelligence out there. The evidence suggests they haven't been found or found us yet though.
I will say one thing though, I'm pretty sure, if it exists, this ET intelligence ("God") does not interfere with earth.
Another possibility of course is that the presence of intelligence on earth is an outlier or Black Swan event.

And - as it happens, I'm not on the fence with the tooth fairies - don't you remember those black and white pictures from the 1930s? Proof positive if you ask me.

Well we should stop the discussion then as your judgement of eveidence is obviously poor

[Moscow Mule]

The evidence suggests they haven't been found or found us yet though.

Indeed, but that's a long way from proving your hypothesis.

Another possibility of course is that the presence of intelligence on earth is an outlier or Black Swan event.

You see Black Swans everywhere, which is why I'm an Agnostic, not an Atheist.

[contractor79]

no evidence for ETs, yet the atheists believe. Nice faith.

[expat]

no evidence for ETs, yet the atheists believe. Nice faith.

"yet the atheists believe". What do you mean? Who are you talking about. Do you have any evidence that "yet the atheists believe"?

Or even that they exist?

[Cowboy Bob]

http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/intelligence.html

[HairyArsedBloke]

Well, he must be right - the $INDU is up 300 points.

BOOMED !!!!!

Happy days are here again.....

We're in the money ....

and all those other songs from the depression era

[Bagpuss]

Was Jesus a Socialist? Helping the less fortunate, care for the poor, the ill the infirm, fairness. Working class carpenter. Liberal leftie, beardy weirdy!

or a

Capitalist? Small bussineman (carpenter). Plan B of performing miracles on the side. Would he split his dividends, starting only with one dividend and then paying a multititude of people? Would he have a MOO to God? could he actually be substituted? Would he work at Easter and could his second rising validate the clause? Would the IR nail his balls to the cross?