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It makes the world of difference. You totally misrepresented Flew's position. He held a mild deist position while maintaining hostility towards theism. I think you should withdraw the comment and apologise. No, you are now misrepresenting my post. I was challenging your assertion that...

Okay - As I have said, I do not know your assumptions or your thoughts, so I cannot understand how you will interpret what I write. I can guess, but I will probably get it wrong. From my interactions with theists, I have found that they feel threatened by atheists (this is one of the reasons...

So, what do you make of Flew's description of the gods of christianity and islam? Professor Antony Flew - Telegraph

So, you do not want to admit your error? I struggle to see why this is important. People change their minds all the time. On that point, the number of people that are deconverting from religion is growing rapidly, especially among youth. One person going the other way is a drop in the...

You may have meant confirmation bias (it is not a delusion). http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias And it is something we all have to struggle to overcome, pretty much all the time. Happy to answer any question (where it is possible to do so).

Now I wonder if I can trust you. Antony Flew became a deist. Not a theist. And it hypothesised that it was as a result of a brain injury. If Lee Strobel, or Josh McDowell, or C.S. Lewis were really convinced, as you say, I would like to see and evaluate that evidence.

So, to clarify: you don't think god interacts with the world here and now? Or just that it is not possible for god to talk to us now?

No. I believe that your faith in genuine. I am just not sure that belief based on faith is the best method for getting to truth. I think you are too hard on yourself. Delusion is a technical term in psychiatry, as it stands religous faith is not a delusion according to the DSM. Even if...

You left out a word there. I don't know. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. If you claim that there is evidence, please present it. There is no such thing as an "atheist worldview". Atheism is a single position on a single claim (the denial of belief in the claim...

I don't know. Only you can answer the question of why you assume the things you do. I am not a mindreader. Actually, I doubt that it is even possible to "read minds". So, I will say, I am not a cold reader either. Sorry - you are simply wrong. Plato's defintion has stood the test of...

How do I verify this information? If I was to believe everything I read in books, I would think that wizards, witches and dragons are real.

[/LIST]Okay, a claim that a person has interacted with a god: I would need specific information about the claim. There are many reasons why people may think that they have interacted with a god, from confirmation bias to sleep paralysis. Do you have a specific case in mind? There are no...

I have no idea, that is why I asked. Why else would I be here? Yes, I has stood the test of time since Plato. For naturalistic phenomena, knowledge produced by the scientific method. It is the best/only tool we have available to us. In the case of the supernatural, knowledge is not...

Well that does not make any sense. In what way would the characterictics of a inaminate object have an effect on the cahracteristics of a animate one??? Other mammals have empathy, help each other and have a sense of justuice (both distributive and procedural). As I have said before, my...

Sorry I meant to say: It bothered me too, when I was a catholic. Now I just see it as a wierd old story that I can ignore, because I am no longer a catholic.

Mate, no matter how many times you ask, I simply cannot answer. I have no idea of how to define gods. As God means so many different things to so many different people and as there is no one definition of God that can be tested, I cannot answer the question.

It bothered me too when I was a catholic.

I quoted it above, I think it was in the "what is god?" thread - http://www.christianforums.com/t7819208-12/ But don't worry about it. These things happen. It is simply not possible to know if gods exist. Yet, some people think they do. Maybe one of this misguided people convinced you of...

But you have already recognised that they exist: If not, you should have said:

I cannot accept, as you have not provided a rational explanation of how that would occur. Despite my attempts to asist you with it. And I have given you evidence that the pillars of morality are present in other eusocial species, but you have ignored that posible explanation.