We say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence but I am betting you could create ordinary claims about the supernatural that require extraordinary evidence.
Example: the deist god could make a four sided triangle.
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We say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence but I am betting you could create ordinary claims about the supernatural that require extraordinary evidence.
Example: the deist god could make a four sided triangle.
Interesting.
The way I see this is that is both extraordinary and a non-sequitur, since a triangle can’t have four sides by definition. So, once the purported deity made it have four sides it simply wouldn’t be a triangle anymore by definition.
Yeah, that’s a rectangle. I can make a rectangle.
Does that make me a god?
I can make a pyramid, which turns triangles into a rectangle. Therefore, I am god.
Any claim that asserts that the supernatural exists is automatically extraordinary, since there has never been any evidence that the supernatural exists. It assumes an entirely new component to the universe.
I don’t think the statement makes sense. I’m not sure I understand it. Your example makes a claim about a deist god, that would be supernatural.While the number of sides on a triangle is just a definition, its just a way for people to communicate. We could have named squares as three sided objects and triangles as four sided.
