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Originally Posted by GaryM
(1) A single piece of experimental evidence always trumps mountains of anecdotal evidence. The ancient Mesopotamians could have given you loads of anecdotal evidence as to why the Earth was shaped like a flat disc, but Aristotle's observations that some stars are only visible from some parts of the world blew that theory out of the water.
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True, but there is no single piece of experimental evidence for the non-existence of god, only failure to prove god's existence. it's not the same thing.
I've heard about the experiments where the brain was stimulated to produce religious type experiences, but it doesn't answer the question of what stimulated those sensations in a non-laboratory environment. My brain could be tricked into smelling oranges by stimulating the right part of it, this does not mean that oranges do not exist.