Religion
In reply to the discussion: Can You Prove It Didn't Happen? [View all]rug
(82,333 posts)imagination and fantasy are procreated by the individual. It usually remains with that individual.
Revelation comes from outside the individual. And historically has spread quite rapidly from that individual. Why do you think this is? Mass delusion?
Again, put down your list of fallacies. You're using them awkwardly. What you call an appeal to authority is instead a recounting of religious experiences. They have no inherent authority to appeal to.
An objective look at human religious experiences over millennia is hardly an appeal to a mob. Like it or not, the phenomena is widespread, ancient and real. You are of course free to chalk it up as a rhetorical device. I don't.
As to appeal to consequences, well that's just silly.
Which brings us back to the starting point. Your measure of God is the scientific method.
Very well. Design the experiment.