I hesitated to share this because it was so blatently bias and unscientific that it made my stomach turn. At EveryStudent.com people can read about a proof for god that is highly prefaced with a disclaimer. The disclaimer starts by saying that the proof for god offered at their website will only be worth something if the reader has an open mind. Fair enough. Skeptics like myself are far from close minded, we just demand extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims. The disclaimer continues:
If a person opposes even the possibility of there being a God, then any evidence can be rationalized or explained away. It is like if someone refuses to believe that people have walked on the moon, then no amount of information is going to change their thinking. Photographs of astronauts walking on the moon, interviews with the astronauts, moon rocks…all the evidence would be worthless, because the person has already concluded that people cannot go to the moon.
Their use of this analogy floored me. It is almost too easy to start shredding this argument. If someone had a photograph of god, taped interview with god, pieces of god’s skin under a microscope, I would be hard pressed not to believe that evidence. However, when people say that god is real and is the biggest most powerful force in the natural world, they need to come up with some pretty amazing evidence to support that claim. Only conspirator theorists and nut jobs don’t believe that the moon landing actually happened. More recently, spacecraft flying over the moon’s surface have photographed the lunar landing site complete with footprints and spacejunk left behind.
Yeah, if someone had credible video of Santa Clause flying his reindeer through the winter’s sky, I’ll believe in him.
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