Not anything.
But certainly all the things you guys regard as impossibilities.

It would be more realistic if, say, this person was immortal.
Otherwise it is kind of difficult to compare this person and his one goal to the vastness of the universe over who knows how long with no specific goal in mind.
You are comparing a narrow wish with very finite boundaries to the variety that can come from the practically infinite.

What is that supposed to mean?
A frog becomes a cookie only when I bake it with flour and sugar and add chocolate chips.
Or when I define "cookie" as anything in a cookie jar...

Of course the latter resembles the typical reasoning behind God.
It's something we don't understand... therefore God.

So if I don't understand it, it's God?

What happens if I put God in a cookie jar?

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And once again, there is no evidence to the contrary. Why do you automatically assume that it cannot be, when it is possible?

Not necessarily to believe it true, but to realize that it is possible. You have no evidence either way, correct?

Why thanks DD, but I don't need your help. And until there is evidence for or against it's existence, it is possible.

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I remain unimpressed.

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Billy Bob: "From now on I don't want to be quoted. EVER! "

Yes it could happen. Science can only help to predict what will happen. Just because it has never happened, that we know of, in no way means that it will never happen. Provide evidence that it cannot happen and I'll gladly listen.

Yep, same thing. No one has ever seen the first organism to live, yet you believe it has existed. Where is your evidence that this organism has ever existed?

No, it is your default position. The billions of people who believe say different.

You're right, I don't believe it. But I also do not dismiss it's possibility. As you say, it is improbable. But it is not impossible. Big difference.

Not too amazed, considering that the examples given are based on assumptions. There is no concrete evidence for the base of the argument. All the following evidence requires that those assumption be true in order for the evidence to support it.

Likewise, if you make a few assumptions, there is plenty of evidence for gods existence.

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But which claim is more extraordinary?

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The claim that a peasant in Judea was the sole savior of the world. Along with the idea that one out of 30,000 different denominations has the truth about him. And, that you can pick that right one accurately.

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Billy Bob: "From now on I don't want to be quoted. EVER! "

Thats not how science works. The onus is on the one making the claim.

Billions of people believed the earth was flat.
Millions and millions of Americans believe Saddam ordered 9/11.

I believe there is a logical fallacy about your position...

Then do you also NOT dismiss the notion that there is no god?

Assumption #1 - Vishnu is the only god.
Assumption #2 - He is beyond human comprehension and outside the laws of nature.

There I just proved Vishnu is the only God and made it impossible to disprove it.

Do you actually use that strategy to win arguments?


Ixtellor

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Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

So, the ones making the claim that there is no god must provide the evidence? Since the majority of the worlds population has been religious in some fashion for thousands of years, the claim of no god would be the contradictory claim.

A fallacy to my position that DD's position is there is no god? Or that billions of people who believe in god/gods disagree with him?

Exactly. Read my reply to Tuatara for my position on this.

You took this out of context.

The evidence for the scientific theories I used all rely on base assumptions for the evidence to support it. People who use science to try to disprove god tend to accept these assumptions without question.

Based on that, if they were to accept the assumption, say for example that there must be a source for everything, then evidence can be presented for the existence of god.

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Causation.

Excellent point.

Thank you, Herk.

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