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From: jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: CONTRARY EVIDENCE (WASRe: Evide)nce!
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:05:34 -0400
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On 10 Mar 2024 14:25:31 GMT, dgb (David) <david@nomale.afraid.org>
wrote:

>On 9 Mar 2024 at 11:41:03 GMT, "jillery" <69jpil69@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 9 Mar 2024 11:01:49 GMT, dgb (David) <david@nomail.afraid.org>
>> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 9 Mar 2024 at 10:50:47 GMT, "jillery" <69jpil69@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> Patterns exist
>>>> everywhere, from stars in the sky to cloud formations to rain drops =
on
>>>> a window,
>>>=20
>>> They do indeed!
>>>=20
>>>> and most of them were created without benefit of intelligence
>>>> or purpose or plan.
>>>=20
>>> You cannot /possibly/ know that to be true!
>>=20
>>=20
>> I acknowledge I can't know with absolute certainty it's true, just as
>> I can't know some intelligence didn't purposely make these patterns
>> appear as if they followed statistical probability.
>>=20
>> However, the standard is to identify evidence for a claim.  Since
>> these patterns are consistent with unguided natural processes, that is
>> sufficient to support my claim.  What evidence do you have the
>> existence of these patterns required intelligence?
>
>The evidence may be found here:-
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God


The key word in your reply is "may".  Circular arguments don't qualify
as evidence. =20


>>> I think you are wrong.
>>=20
>> You're entitled to your opinion, which is as good as any other
>> baseless opinion.
>
>If I had wanted YOUR opinion I'd have given it to you!


You can't always get what you want,=20
but if you try sometimes,=20
well you might find,=20
you get what you need.

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To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge