I do not think that theism has a ton of evidence for it. In particular treating things as simply evidence for theism is usually wrong. Things purported to specifically show the truth of Christianity, like Jesus’ image in a shroud, can’t be added to purported miracles worked by Shamans sating warring gods by sacrificing chickens, or humans, for example.
The more the truth is shown within one theory, the more probability mass it steals from others, including atheist theories—and by the time the dust settles after the first round of considering evidence, there are equally plausible theistic beliefs that each disqualify many other similarly theistic ones proportional to their likelihood of being true. The best conclusion is that intelligent people are adept at believing untrue claims about religion similar to folk beliefs around them. Every theistic philosophy has to postulate massive credulity by otherwise intelligent humans about wrong religious claims.
A-gravity-ism isn’t a theory of physics. I can’t tell if that means a theory saying that everything expands in size, creating the illusion of things being attracted to things proportional to size, or a theory saying that this universe is a simulation run from one without gravity as a physical law, or a theory that everything has an essence that seeks other essences in a way unrelated to mass, or what. The denial of anything other than an impossibly exhaustive conjunctive and disjunctive statement isn’t a theory.
Gravity deniers may form a political party with adherents of all the theories I mentioned above to lobby against the “gravitational establishment”. But their collective existence means that each has to have as part of their psychological and sociological theory that it is very easy to be deluded into believing a crackpot, unjustified theory of gravity. No particular theory, including any of theirs, get the presumption of truth.
We begin with no presumption that mass is attracted to other mass inversely proportional to the square of the distance. We don’t need to to end up assigning similar odds for that we began with, because for that hypothesis there is truly a ton of evidence.
We don’t see any particular theory uniquely improbably postulating rampant confabulation and motivated cognition implicated in beliefs about gravity. Every theory, even the a-gravity-ist ones, also postulates this, so there is nothing to explain that an a-gravity-ism is required to explain, or is superior at explaining, including if most intelligent people have been a-gravity-ists. This is particularly true when a-gravity-ism was the default belief.
And when something is found that better describe’s matter’s behavior, such as relativity, we see how the new theory says the old one was a good approximation, the ton of evidence was not simply violated.
I do not think that theism has a ton of evidence for it. In particular treating things as simply evidence for theism is usually wrong. Things purported to specifically show the truth of Christianity, like Jesus’ image in a shroud, can’t be added to purported miracles worked by Shamans sating warring gods by sacrificing chickens, or humans, for example.
The more the truth is shown within one theory, the more probability mass it steals from others, including atheist theories—and by the time the dust settles after the first round of considering evidence, there are equally plausible theistic beliefs that each disqualify many other similarly theistic ones proportional to their likelihood of being true. The best conclusion is that intelligent people are adept at believing untrue claims about religion similar to folk beliefs around them. Every theistic philosophy has to postulate massive credulity by otherwise intelligent humans about wrong religious claims.
A-gravity-ism isn’t a theory of physics. I can’t tell if that means a theory saying that everything expands in size, creating the illusion of things being attracted to things proportional to size, or a theory saying that this universe is a simulation run from one without gravity as a physical law, or a theory that everything has an essence that seeks other essences in a way unrelated to mass, or what. The denial of anything other than an impossibly exhaustive conjunctive and disjunctive statement isn’t a theory.
Gravity deniers may form a political party with adherents of all the theories I mentioned above to lobby against the “gravitational establishment”. But their collective existence means that each has to have as part of their psychological and sociological theory that it is very easy to be deluded into believing a crackpot, unjustified theory of gravity. No particular theory, including any of theirs, get the presumption of truth.
We begin with no presumption that mass is attracted to other mass inversely proportional to the square of the distance. We don’t need to to end up assigning similar odds for that we began with, because for that hypothesis there is truly a ton of evidence.
We don’t see any particular theory uniquely improbably postulating rampant confabulation and motivated cognition implicated in beliefs about gravity. Every theory, even the a-gravity-ist ones, also postulates this, so there is nothing to explain that an a-gravity-ism is required to explain, or is superior at explaining, including if most intelligent people have been a-gravity-ists. This is particularly true when a-gravity-ism was the default belief.
And when something is found that better describe’s matter’s behavior, such as relativity, we see how the new theory says the old one was a good approximation, the ton of evidence was not simply violated.