Reply #62: According to atheists ... [View All]

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There is no substantive basis for god belief ...

Tell you what: ... Paris is a city in France, and France is a nation within Western Europe ... Western Europe is a part of the 'European Contintent', which is one of the seven continents on this wonderful and awful earth ...

There is a substantive basis for belief in an earth ...

There is a substantive basis for belief in earthly continents ...

There is a substantive basis for belief in Europe ...

There is a substantive basis for belief in Western Europe ...

There is a substantive basis for belief in France ...

There is a substantive basis for belief in Paris ...

EACH can be touched, measured, tasted, seen, heard, smelt ... and shared ...

EACH has an overwhelming amount of empirical evidence that supports a reasonable belief in their existence ...

Now: .. Let's ask these same questions of an all-powerful, all-knowing and 'ever-present' god ...

What DIRECT empirical evidence, a posteriori evidence, of an 'omnipresent' god exists ? ... What evidence of such a god is measurable ? ... can it be touched, smelt, seen, heard or tasted ??? ..

I am 'all ears' here ... You have a chance to correct my poor perception: ... Tell me of your 'real' god, and remind me of the substantive basis for god belief ...

I am open to any and all gods that can be shown to truly exist ...

ESPECIALLY omnipresent gods that dont actually appear to be present ...