Theory number 3.

[Angrboda]

Perhaps. But how do you separate it from confirmation bias?


When I was in my teens, I was convinced that the fundamental structure of matter was toroidal, because the mathematics appealed to me. My brother tried to disabuse me of the notion to no avail. I grew out of it, but it took time.

If you're talking about God as a feeling, I have no problem with that. Our insides are mysterious. Sometimes it makes sense to talk about them in terms of mysteries. However, where there are more robust and reliable ways, it is self destructive to cling to the old because it is familiar or pleasurable.

Perhaps. You have a lot of "might be true" things. The class of things which "might be true" is infinite. This is the factual corrolary to logical explosion. If we do not hold to a higher epistemic standard, our world will shudder throughout with the dissonance of infinitely many inconsistent tacit beliefs. And while science and philosophy can't tell you what is true, they can tell you more reliably what is most probable. And that assessment can range from 1% to 99%. However all the deist arguments I've seen you give tend to cluster at around the 0.000001% mark. Science works, not arbitrarily, but because it is founded on good logic and epistemology. If you want to run the old nags and old paint against her Secretariat, be my guest; just don't expect to win.