Does God Exist?

[tyranim]

how is it confused. its simpy admiting that i dont know anything that isnt proven false or true. not many are willing to do that.

[Scaredgirl]

how is it confused. its simpy admiting that i dont know anything that isnt proven false or true. not many are willing to do that.

Hmm.. you failed to see my humor. Well, it happens a lot.

The word you are probably looking for is "agnostic".

I personally find the whole concept of Agnosticism a bit silly. Science has never claimed that it knows everything and the burden of proof lies with the supernatural aka religion.

If I say there's a pink invisible unicorn living in my closet, do you accept that it might be the truth because you cannot prove it to be false?

[Demagog]

If I say there's a pink invisible unicorn living in my closet, do you accept that it might be the truth because you cannot prove it to be false?

If it's invisible, it isn't pink. And we could also determine that it isn't their through other senses (smell, touch, sound). I'm not actually arguing with you in a serious manner, just pointing out a couple flaws :-p

[Scaredgirl]

If I say there's a pink invisible unicorn living in my closet, do you accept that it might be the truth because you cannot prove it to be false?

If it's invisible, it isn't pink. And we could also determine that it isn't their through other senses (smell, touch, sound). I'm not actually arguing with you in a serious manner, just pointing out a couple flaws :-p

If you turn a red ball invisible, it's still red, only invisible.

Nobody has of course ever seen the pink unicorn because it's invisible. But we believe that it's pink. That's the whole point.

[Demagog]

Well nothing is ACTUALLY pink. We just say it's pink because it reflects that wavelength of light. If it reflects no light, it can't be pink. If it suddenly revealed itself and was pink, then it exhibits the quality of being pink while it is visible. As soon as it becomes invisible, it loses the quality of being pink.

I'm just arguing for the sake of argument by the way :-)

[Scaredgirl]

Well nothing is ACTUALLY pink. We just say it's pink because it reflects that wavelength of light. If it reflects no light, it can't be pink. If it suddenly revealed itself and was pink, then it exhibits the quality of being pink while it is visible. As soon as it becomes invisible, it loses the quality of being pink.

I'm just arguing for the sake of argument by the way :-)

That's blasphemy!

[Demagog]

How is it blasphemy?

[Scaredgirl]

How is it blasphemy?

You said that the invisible pink Unicorn is not pink!

It has always been pink.
It will always be pink.

But I don't really have to prove you the existence or color of the invisible pink unicorn. I have faith that it's pink and unless you can prove to me that it's not pink, it will be pink.

Your science and wavelengths of light cannot explain everything in the world. Maybe the color of the pink unicorn has nothing to do with wavelengths of light? Maybe it's a "divine color" or something?

[vrt]

My sarcasm meter exploded.

[tyranim]

to answer your questioin sg, i do believe there is a possibility of an invisible pink unicorn in your closet. prove there isnt. (tho that was said in a joking manner it remains the truth)

[Daxx]

to answer your questioin sg, i do believe there is a possibility of an invisible pink unicorn in your closet. prove there isnt. (tho that was said in a joking manner it remains the truth)

You should do some reading on the Burden of Proof (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof).

[tyranim]

that confused me. too many big words. (even tho i have the highest vocabulary in most of my classes [i guess they all suck then{lol}]) but what im saying is that, even tho we have our senses, we cant be ABSOLUTELY positive its fact. our senses can deceive us. when sg says she has a pink invisible unicorn in her closet, what evidence do i have that thats false? if i base my entire life on what my senses tell me, it may be a false life. so i simply live life without any worries and im happy. who cares if there is/isnt a pink invisible unicorn in her closet. it changes nothing at all. we live and we die, nothing more as far as we know. a happy life is a lot more valuable than a successful life.