Phat writes:
Your life is so based on evidence that you would stand forever...if necessary...waiting for the evidence and never choose to believe anything.
It isn't about evidence. It's about probability. The probability is that you will "choose" the god that was presented to you by your culture. There is no guarantee that that god has any relation to "the real God", if such a thing even exists. If you were
really making a choice, you'd examine the other possibilities before jumping on the first one.
Phat writes:
In my belief there is only one of them anyway, so the decision is to basically either choose or not choose....
That's a convenient and comforting doctrine that you've concocted for yourself. Can you bring yourself to actually swallow it or are you just whistling in the dark?
Phat writes:
What your sentence should say is this: By that logic, its better to choose than to wait for evidence.
No.
The logic of any-choice-is-better-than-no-choice is the logic of leaping without looking.
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