Religion
In reply to the discussion: Can You Prove It Didn't Happen? [View all]Silent3
(15,204 posts)...claims is a good remedy.
I don't accept "the answers" you refer to because those answers, in and of themselves, are special pleading. Calling special pleading what it is, special pleading, is no more circular reasoning than calling a dog a dog. If you want to call rejection of special pleading a form of special pleading itself, knock yourself out, but don't expect anyone else to buy it.
I could possibly more open the alleged "answers" (which have supposedly "been covered already" provided some alternate robust system of evidence to supplant physical evidence, something that showed real progress and development over time like science does, when at least some ideas and claims occasionally met definitive deaths (as phlogiston theory and Lamarckian inheritance and many, many others have in science) instead of ideas and claims just going in and out of fashion, and if there were any way (beyond more special pleading from theologians) to distinguish supernatural claims from fantasy and imagination.