On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 10:40:45 AM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:

On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 10:10:05 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:

I don't see anything here that even remotely rises to the level of
objective, or even reasonable evidence for the existence of a god. A
girl can paint? A boy thinks he went to heaven? Two people have a
similar idea what Jesus looked like?

If it happens that a number of similar anecdotes come up - and in the
majority of those anecdotes, Jesus looks the same, and His appearance
is not simply modeled on a commonly-known portrait - that would indeed
be objective evidence, even if not ironclad.

On the other hand, if there are many similar anecdotes, and in two of them,
Jesus looks the same, yes, that isn't evidence.

John Savard

Indeed, and it's way too late to ask all the people who have claimed to
have had near-death experiences. If they say, "Yes, he looked like that,"
one couldn't tell the honest ones from the fakers. What would be convincing
is if more children who had not been exposed to that portrait have NDEs
would then see it and say that that was what he looked like, that would
perhaps meet your criterion of "objective" evidence.