Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: Kevin Aylward (salesEXTRACT_at_anasoft.co.uk)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:05:21 GMT

John Fields wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:43:31 GMT, "Kevin Aylward"
> <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I am implying *credible* evidence, and certainly *only* that evidence
>> that would be allowed in a court of crimnial law. That is, hearsay is
>> dismissed unilterally as "no evidence".
>>
>> For example, simple claims of "I saw god" are unsupportable so are
>> dismissed unilaterally.
>
> ---
> Claims of "I saw God" are _not_ hearsay.

I didnt say it was, I apologise if that was the inference. Simple claims
of "I saw god" are unsupportable because anyone can claim anything.
Hint, I saw Elvis last night.

> Hearsay would be "John says
> he saw God" and are excluded from evidence because it's not John,
> himself, saying it in court.

Yes.

> ---
>
>> The reasons are obvious. The dude may have been
>> hallucinating, deluded, or what he saw was not god. A claimed god
>> needs to present evidence that he is, i.e produce an experiment
>> totally at odds to known physics, say create a sun from nowhere.
>
> ---
> How about creating a universe?

Yeah, that would do. Get him to make a universe in front of me.

Indeed, the fact that the universe exists is evidence that I created the
universe, cos my mum said that I am as good as god...or was that as good
as gold...

>
> If I tell you to do something and you don't do it does that mean you
> don't exist?

>
> Likewise, setting tasks for God which don't get done doesn't mean God
> doesn't exist.

No, but is such a god who can never be shown to do anything, is looking
more and more like a figment of someone's imagination.

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