• CXORA@aussie.zone
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    5 hours ago

    Surely if it was a miracle there’d be some supernatural residue left over. Holy ectoplasm.

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        1 hour ago

        Yes, but absence of evidence isn’t evidence for anything.

        It’s wild how many need to find them some scientific method.

        I was only pointing out, in my original comment, that I’m sure around the world people pray/say all sorts of things when a plane is crashing, not just the Christian god. But because they’re only focusing on crashes in the US, they are concluding that everyone prays to god (presumably, the Christian one).

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        44 minutes ago

        so you didn’t know which god saved them either. It could be the flying spaghetti monster. (note the existence of this religion is literally based on your statement)

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        3 hours ago

        Isnt it though? If i say i own a car but never carry car keys, my home has no garage or on-street parking spot, that is evidence that i dont own a car.

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          (dunno if you’re being sarcastic)

          It’s just a twee catchphrase christians came up with to say you can’t prove a negative. It’s not anything new, and it’s not actually contributing anything. It’s a core aspect of “burden of proof”, and this is just a way of shifting said burden to the people asking for evidence of the divine instead of leaving it on the people asserting that the divine exists in the first place.