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a bit what is evidence first of all according to the cambridge academic content dictionary evidence is anything that helps to prove that something is or is not true typically when i am asked to define the word i say something along the lines of evidence refers to the relevant facts pertaining to any matter of controversy uncertainty or dispute thus following my first principle if there is a dispute about a matter for which an actual answer exists for example either harry did kill sally or harry did not weighing relevant facts is the most reliable method to approximate the correct answer the word approximate also appears in my statement of evidentialism and this is because even though recourse to evidence has proven repeatedly to be our best tool for discovering truth i e in the legal judicial world in medical settings in day to day life etc it is not an infallible tool we as mere evolved creatures with large and advanced brains cannot hope to possess absolute certainty we are forced to settle for provisional truths in which our level of confidence is commensurate with the available evidence the last part of my statement of evidentialism refers to the world of experience as distinct from a hypothetical world of actuality to which for whatever reason i might not have access think of it this way for dr cliff huxtable the main character in the cosby show the world of that show was his actual world dr cliff huxtable does not live in our world rather he is a character who exists only in the world of the television program in an analogous way consider the possibility that in actuality i am a brain in a vat some kind of super intelligence has merely created the illusion that i exist as a free roaming primate when in fact i am just a brain soaking in a vat because this fact presumably is inaccessible to me in the illusion in which i live i could gather no evidence of this actual world to which i have no access by the same token though an actual world from which my consciousness is permanently isolated and of which i have no evidence might as well not exist at all its existence is indistinguishable from its non existence and thus inconsequential the only world about which i care the only world consequential to me and thus worthy of interrogation is the one in which i find myself that being the world of experience what then is so persuasive about evidentialism as a first principle anyway why to use the eyeglass lens analogy is my vision so much better with evidentialism than with say a first principle centered on biblical christianity as hinted at earlier evidence can easily be adduced in support of evidence s pervasive utility in approximating truth thus making evidentialism a self subsisting rather than self annihilating first principle criminal justice systems that are driven by evidence gathering and examination are clearly much more likely to zero in on criminals than are systems in which evidence is shunted aside when trying to determine guilt in the medical field those doctors who ascertain what symptoms a patient manifests gather symptomatic evidence before reaching conclusions about what afflicts that patient are clearly much more likely to diagnose the illness correctly than are doctors who gather no symptomatic evidence and inarguably in nearly every person s everyday life he or she constantly gathers and acts upon evidence for example when upon seeing brake lights illuminate in front of us we apply our own brakes having realized that the evidence of the brake lights indicates the car in front of us is slowing stated simply evidence works there are some who mischaracterize me as a doctrinaire materialist or naturalist as a committed and unshakeable atheist or physicalist in fact though the only commitment i make the only notion to which i have presuppositionally wedded myself is to the validity of evidentialism as first principle i am in ascending order of importance an atheist a naturalist and a nihilist and i am all of these things as a result of my evidentialism theoretically all three of those descriptors could change indeed could be negated entirely if the evidence were contrary that is why the oft heard charge that through my presuppositions i have ruled out biblical christianity rings utterly hollow biblical christianity is in principle fully compatible with evidentialism this is demonstrated even within the bible in 1 kings 18 for example leading jaco gericke in his contribution to the book the end of christianity to note that presumably christians have confected their own reasons why these things no longer happen and why no philosopher of religion will agree to a contest on mount carmel i would be foolish indeed to reject supernaturalism entirely if the world looked fundamentally different from how it actually looks for instance suppose that true pious christian believers were able to resuscitate the dead a feat that nobody of any other religion and no impious casual christian could ever do surely if such a thing were actually the case it would be meaningful and it would be difficult to maintain a purely naturalistic stance consider also a hypothetical possibility raised by richard carrier who in his extended essay on why he is not a christian envisages true christian bibles that are all indestructible unalterable and self translating it might be a bit primitive for one to shout lo a miracle in response to such a phenomenon surely a natural explanation might exist however unlikely but any evidentialist would have no choice but to reweigh the odds of the supernatural existing i am a naturalist because in interrogating the world of experience i find no compelling evidence for the supernatural and no need for recourse to it in the same way i am an atheist because i have discovered no persuasive evidence for gods and no need to appeal to them finally and most importantly i am a nihilist because given the current evidence the cosmos and everything in it seems to be ultimately meaningless purposeless and lacking objective value although as noted nihilist is the most important appellation that i apply to myself it is worthwhile to explain especially given my relentless criticism of the religion exactly why i reject biblical christianity and embrace atheism the reasons are numerous and include the flood the word just seems right of absurd claims contained within the bible s pages not absurd in the sense of being self contradictory but rather in the sense of failing utterly to comport with the world of experience as we all collectively know it the text s seeming incompatibility with darwinian evolution and a 13 7 billion year old universe prayer s uselessness in actually effecting desired results people s pronounced tendency to embrace the religion of their parents and peers and the problem of statistical improbability regarding a hugely complex being god simply existing without a satisfactory explanation of origins there are however three principal reasons i reject christianity each of which is probably sufficient to falsify the faith and that when taken collectively ring its unmistakable death knell for all but the most presuppositionally committed why then am i not a christian first because god is absent or at the least silent in essence those of the christian faith proclaim that our universe and all that is part of it is in the hands of an omniscient omnipotent omnipresent creator deity who takes a personal interest in human affairs it is completely inexplicable then that this creator deity would be entirely undetectable and utterly absent from day to day life if one reads the bible one finds an active present immediate god moreover one finds copious miracles and prodigies that are unlike anything with which we are familiar the reliably perceptive david hume in of miracles writes it forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations when we peruse the first histories of all nations we are apt to imagine ourselves transported into some new world where the whole frame of nature is disjointed and every element performs its operations in a different manner from what it does at present battles revolutions pestilence famine and death are never the effect of those natural causes which we experience prodigies omens oracles judgements quite obscure the few natural events that are intermingled with them but as the former grow thinner every page in proportion as we advance nearer the enlightened ages we soon learn that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvelous hume rightly adds it is strange a judicious reader is apt to say upon the perusal of these wonderful historians that such prodigious events never happen in our days why would a god who in barbarous and ignorant times was so clear present and active suddenly upon the emergence of a scientific understanding of the natural order become a silent inert sluggard whose presence could only be discerned in the most obscure skepticism baiting ways where are the miracles and prodigies for our scientific age because god if existent would be a do nothing layabout christianity is falsified second the bible despite the fact it is purported to be inspired by god himself wallows in pitiable prescientific primitivism and yawn inducing mundanity certainly considering its alleged divine inspiration one might expect the bible to be full of dazzlingly specific information of which no one had been previously aware in light of its purported inspiration one might expect the pinnacle of all intellectual achievement this is not so sam harris in the end of faith writes the bible does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century there is nothing about the actual age or size of our universe there is nothing about the germ theory of disease heliocentric theory of the solar system or atomic theory of matter earth s vast geography is shrunk down to claustrophobically local levels it is not even clear from the bible whether the creator of our universe is aware of australia the bible is not a product of divine inspiration but rather lamentable ancient ignorance how christopher hitchens asks in god is not great can genesis be proven the mundane work of ignorant humans in merely a paragraph he writes because man is given dominion over all beasts fowl and fish but no dinosaurs or plesiosaurs or pterodactyls are specified because the authors did not know of their existence let alone of their supposedly special and immediate creation nor are any marsupials mentioned because australia the next candidate after mesoamerica for a new eden was not on any known map most important in genesis man is not awarded dominion over germs and bacteria because the existence of these necessary yet dangerous fellow creatures was not known or understood and if it had been known or understood it would at once have become apparent that these forms of life had dominion over us and would continue to enjoy it uncontested until the priests had been elbowed aside and medical research at last given an opportunity the bible s mundanity belies the claim of divine inspiration thus proving christianity false third i am not a christian because worship of yahweh as the singular creator deity did not arise independently among numerous geographically isolated populations any delusional belief system if designed with sufficient cleverness has the potential to catch fire as it were and spread pervasively throughout our species much less easily explained however would be for the same delusional belief system to arise independently as though through universal identical revelation in many different places imagine if around 2000 bce worship of yahweh had arisen nearly simultaneously in the middle east china the americas and central africa what would the odds have been of an identical god character with distinctive quirks commandments preferences and fetishes having been invented by completely different populations they seem infinitesimal there is however no evidence of yahweh worship arising independently among geographically isolated groups however spiritual they might previously have been primitive populations began to worship yahweh specifically when believers in yahweh arrived at their shores the omniscient omnipotent omnipresent deity s message therefore is spread by the veritable pony express method of human beings christopher hitchens in god is not great writes one recalls the question that was asked by the chinese when the first christian missionaries made their appearance if god has revealed himself how is it that he has allowed so many centuries to elapse before informing the chinese whatever deities might have haunted chinese history none was distinguishably yahweh the failure of god to reveal himself independently to several geographically isolated populations then also falsifies christianity as noted earlier though i am not principally defined as an atheist or a non christian but rather as a nihilist particularly a moral nihilist and an existential nihilist as explained on wikipedia moral nihilism is the meta ethical view that nothing is moral or immoral indeed moral nihilists reject the very concepts of objective good and evil right and wrong righteous and wicked as pertains to the actual existent world wikipedia defines existential nihilism as the belief that life has no intrinsic meaning or value broadened a bit existential nihilism refers to the belief that the universe is meaningless and purposeless as is its every component on this view humanity for instance is to the universe as a single grain of sand on a beach is to the earth the entire species could go extinct in an enormous nuclear blast indeed the sun could incinerate the entire solar system or the milky way could vanish and the universe would not take the slightest notice nor would the event have the faintest objective meaning and as previously explained my nihilism both moral and existential directly results from my evidentialist first principle the natural starting point is with existential nihilism because in my view moral nihilism follows quite directly therefrom the foundational background knowledge with which i approach the issue includes but is not limited to the fact of darwinian evolution by natural selection the fact of an old universe about 13 7 billion years and an old earth following some 9 billion years later and the utter absence of compelling evidence for the veracity of religious revelation including that of christianity the cumulative discoveries of science over the past two centuries have confirmed that all living creatures on this planet share common ancestry that is there is a single darwinian tree of life of which every species including human beings is part although different species po...