(February 7, 2018 at 9:37 pm)SteveII Wrote:(February 7, 2018 at 9:11 pm)Cyberman Wrote: That we don't know everything doesn't come close to meaning that we know nothing at all, nor does it mean we get to make up stuff and then try to retrofit it into reality.
If "God" is the best explanation for why anything at all exists, and you are positing that "God" exists, what is the best explanation for why "God" exists?
If God exists, he does so necessarily (as in could not have been otherwise). Because of this, it makes no sense to ask what it the explanation of God. Either he always did exist or he does not. The question is: are there reasons to think that God does exist? I gave three categories of reasons. Incontrovertible proof? No. Reasons? Yes.
You're palming a card here. You went from 'if "God" exists then it must exist' to 'if "God" must exist then it does exist' without so much as a pause for breath.
What is the justification for entertaining the concept at all? Btonze- and Iron-age man lacked our understanding of the nature of reality and our tools to investigate it, at least to the degree that we can. They can be forgiven for seeing gods, demons, spirits etc in every shadow and every tree. We haven't had the luxury of such an excuse for the last couple of centuries.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
