Jon’s Quora Content
Since Quora has switched from blogs to ‘spaces’ I’ve been unable to update my permanent material stored there. In the interests of continuing to update it and making it readily available, I’ve decided to shift it here instead.
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‘Is it possible that…’ questions are usually daft. Here’s why.
Is it possible that… … gods exist? … there is an afterlife? …there are new forms of science we haven’t yet discovered? …Satan used a miracle to alter DNA? … etc, etc, etc… It’s possible, but it’s a vacuous possibility, in that there is no evidence whatsoever to support it. A vacuous possibility is a hypothesis which is… Read more
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How do atheists regard ‘creation’?
Let me try to address this in detail:
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Experiences are not evidence
Every few days on Quora a question like this one appears: What are some real-life ghost stories that made skeptics question their beliefs, like strange voices or unexplained noises in a home? And like many of the more naive questions on the site, it reveals a fundamental failure to understand the basics of critical thinking.… Read more
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