- I can feel air's warmth or chill on my body, and quantify it with an instrument called a thermometer
- I can measure air's pressure with an instrument called a barometer
- I can feel the force of air's push against my body when the wind blows
- I can see air pick up leaves and transport them to another location
- I can see air shimmering as it rises off of a hot road in summer
- I see how air causes the stars to twinkle in the night sky
- I can witness how air can be used to generate useful power using a windmill
- As a scuba diver, I can feel air compress inside my sinuses when I descend, and expand when I ascend
- As a scuba diver, I can watch the bubbles air forms as I exhale underwater
- As a scuba diver, I can feel air coming out of my tank when I turn on the valve
- As a scuba diver, I can measure air's pressure in my tank with my submersible pressure gauge
- As a scuba diver, I can see and feel air inflating my vest when I press the inflate button
- I can hear air's vibrations when my ears detect sound
- I can ride in an airplane which gets its lift from air interacting with the wings
- I can sometimes look out the airplane window and actually see air rushing over the wing
- I have ridden in a hot air balloon which generates its lift from the buoyancy of hot air over colder air
- I can see how air changes the colour of the Sun during sunrise and sunset
- I can see the effect air has on fire when I fan flames with my hands or an object
- I can see the northern lights, caused by the interaction of energetic particles with air molecules
- I can use my exhaled air to inflate a balloon
- I can see air surrounding Earth in photographs taken from space
- As a skydiver, I can witness air slow my descent (vs. gravitational predictions) under a parachute
*Despite many of these evidences being subjective to my senses, they are objective because almost all other people would agree with my experiences and describe them in the same way.
4 comments:
How dare you make a claim and then provide proof! Don't you know that it's the job of others to prove it doesn't exist?
Seeing your own breath in the cold counts, right? What about seeing the rain change direction during a storm? I guess that feeling air enter and exit my lungs as I breathe is kinda pushing it.
I don't what they correct fallacy term for this is, or if there even is one, but it's the same thing as when they ask the question "What evidence would be necessary for you to believe in a god?".
This is an obvious distraction, suggesting that there is a load of evidence that isn't up to the standard.
The fact is that there is no evidence that even brings one to think that there might be something in the theist position.
Same with this wind thing, the distraction is to make you think that the only thing that is important is the conclusive eye-witness proof.
My response generally to that is generally "Any that isn't explainable in any other way."
This usually leads to a series of poorly thought out arguments, wasting my time further... Maybe I should just ignore theists....
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