(November 18, 2016 at 8:23 am)The Joker Wrote:(November 18, 2016 at 8:10 am)robvalue Wrote: I don't know what God is, as you haven't defined it.
I didn't say that at all, but yes, it appears we cannot know whether this reality was created by an intelligence or was not.
I will define God but tell me, do you lack belief in God because you don't know whether this reality was created by an intelligence or was not?
Parsimony. I lack belief in your fanciful fairy tale for the same reason we both lack belief in all the others. Attributing origins to magic is not an intellectually satisfying sort of explanation. But if it works for you, then any of the fairy tales from any time or place in history will do as well as any other.