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Originally Posted by MattyC
It's not black and white, because our evidence (or lack thereof) doesn't explain away everything.
Sure we have no empirical evidence of afterlife, but that doesn't mean it can't exist insofar that we just haven't discovered it yet (or can't). Or it's very likely that there's nothing at all. But lack of evidence doesn't make it an impossibility. We need to have evidence of it being an impossibility before we can make that claim.
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Who said it was impossible? I said there was no evidence. Believing in something completely made up without evidence is stupid, IMO. If there was evidence, I'd believe because it would be stupid not to.
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Originally Posted by MattyC
What would you consider supernatural? Anyone from 150 years ago would say that instant communication is "supernatural". To put things into a category of supernatural and just call them black and white impossible due to lack of evidence, to me, is just as arrogant as someone trying to convince me that the Earth was created in 7 days and all the universe revolves around us. The only difference is that the former has been DISPROVED. Whereas, the idea of afterlife hasn't been. Plenty of solid arguments against it, not much in the way of arguments for it, but not disproved.
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Russell's Teapot:
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...the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.
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