RE: You Can't Disprove a Miracle
March 15, 2016 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2016 at 10:35 am by robvalue.)
How do you assess the probability that laws of nature we don't know about could account for an event?
It would certainly be more probable than supernatural laws we don't know about, and that we don't even know are a real thing at all.
It's not like we have a book of all the natural laws and we're at page 99 out of 100.
What do you accomplish by labelling things "supernatural"? Please tell me one practical purpose. Especially considering the natural cause could be found the next day, and then you are literally wrong. If you're just saying "it could be supernatural" that is a useless statement. It could be any unfalsifiable explanation.
And indeed, we don't know that it could. It would be consistent, but it might not be possible. If there is no supernatural, then it can't be an explanation. You can't define it into existence. You may be defining an empty set.
You are still 3 complete non sequiturs away from getting anywhere near your own personal God. Like I said in my video, the only reason to keep using that word is it sounds a bit like God.
It would certainly be more probable than supernatural laws we don't know about, and that we don't even know are a real thing at all.
It's not like we have a book of all the natural laws and we're at page 99 out of 100.
What do you accomplish by labelling things "supernatural"? Please tell me one practical purpose. Especially considering the natural cause could be found the next day, and then you are literally wrong. If you're just saying "it could be supernatural" that is a useless statement. It could be any unfalsifiable explanation.
And indeed, we don't know that it could. It would be consistent, but it might not be possible. If there is no supernatural, then it can't be an explanation. You can't define it into existence. You may be defining an empty set.
You are still 3 complete non sequiturs away from getting anywhere near your own personal God. Like I said in my video, the only reason to keep using that word is it sounds a bit like God.
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