Re: Remember that time I asked for evidence that atheists exist?

Dawn Flood <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.atheism
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 8/24/2026 11:55 PM, JTEM wrote:
> 
> So here's one thread...
> 
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.atheism/c/4-VWXUs18WQ/m/RMa6hdOuBQAJ
> 
> And it was simple. It went like this:
> 
> Post any evidence you have for the existence of one or more atheists
> but, only evidence of a sort that you would accept coming from
> anyone else, including a theist.
> 
> That's it.
> 
> Restricting yourself ONLY to forms of evidence you accept from those
> you are arguing against, present evidence for the existence of one
> or more atheists.
> 
> My point of course was that the only "Evidence" for the existence
> of atheists would be personal testimony -- self reports -- and that
> is precisely what self-identified atheists EXCLUDE!
> 
> It didn't work. Nobody saw their error. Nobody glimpsed themselves
> as the rest of the world sees them.
> 
> And the real irony here?  Theists aren't limited to self reports.
> But they were just as blind to this fact as they were to themselves.
> 
How are we excluding anyone's personal testimony?  Tavis Walton claimed 
that he was abducted by aliens and taken up into their spaceship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_incident

Does his personal testimony mean that aliens are real??

Dawn
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