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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 18, 2015 at 8:43 pm
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Seeing no reason that something -should not be- does not demonstrate that something -is-. I see no reason that my dick shouldn't be longer than Bob's dick........and yet it isn't.
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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 18, 2015 at 8:45 pm
The reason is genetics and random DNA combination.
Next?
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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 18, 2015 at 8:46 pm
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You get those "shoulds" from genetics? You -should- publish a paper on that.
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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 18, 2015 at 9:03 pm
(June 18, 2015 at 8:21 pm)Iroscato Wrote: (June 18, 2015 at 8:15 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You don't have to be an expert in cosmology. The process which leads us to state that "all things must have a cause" or "stuff can't come from nothing" can only be held confidently to be true in this state of the universe, as it is, as we perceive it's interactions now. All of -that- only goes as far back as the big bang. Before the big bang there could have been different physics...there could have been different -logic-. Perhaps stuff -couldn't- come from nothing in a hypothetical "before the big bang" if that phrase even makes sense......but we have no way of knowing that, and the reverse could just as easily be true. It's not strong enough a statement to lead, inexorably, to truth.
Well said. I'm tempted to say the laws of physics are the same in any universe - but I don't because such knowledge is currently far beyond human understanding, and perhaps always will be, confined as we are to this single cosmos.
I think a good take away here is that at the end of the day, we are both taking a leap of faith. The answer to the origin of everything cannot be proven in any sort of way.
We can either believe that the laws of nature were different enough back then to allow for things to form from nothing at all, or we can believe that there is a supernatural element at play.
Neither can be proven, and neither fit within the confines of our human understanding.
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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 18, 2015 at 9:05 pm
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No, we're not both doing "it". But it wouldn't matter if we were....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
......and I don't have to believe -anything- let alone either of those two choices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 18, 2015 at 9:18 pm
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Glad to see you spreading it around the forums CL instead of just minding your own nest.
Personally I don't find the acceptance of a 'supernatural' category that easy to swallow. There is nothing I've ever encountered or read about which could be classed as other than natural. Can I 'prove' it? No, but I don't think that any alternatives are on the same footing where on the one side you can demonstrate a fit with reality as we know it and on the other is something entirely separate from everything we know and undetectable.
If gods exist I assume everything they can do would be by means comprehensible to them at least. Gods would possess a unified theory which renders what we call supernatural with everything else. Being unable to explain anything ourselves with our current understanding is not enough to rule out its being natural.
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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 18, 2015 at 9:20 pm
(June 18, 2015 at 9:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The answer to the origin of everything cannot be proven in any sort of way.
We do not know that. We only know that we have not yet.
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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 18, 2015 at 9:38 pm
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(June 18, 2015 at 9:18 pm)whateverist Wrote: Glad to see you spreading it around the forums CL instead of just minding your own nest.
What do you mean?
(June 18, 2015 at 9:20 pm)IATIA Wrote: (June 18, 2015 at 9:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The answer to the origin of everything cannot be proven in any sort of way.
We do not know that. We only know that we have not yet.
I agree.
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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 19, 2015 at 2:20 am
Even granting that we haven't yet solved the question of the origins of the Universe and maybe never will, the two options you cited (the laws of physics were different enough to allow causation vs it could have been a supernatural entity) are not equally valid. Everything we can observe in nature is caused by other things in nature. Leaping to the least plausible explanation before investigating far more plausible ones is not keeping an open mind to the possibilities; it's actually a definition of delusion (or if it's not, it ought to be). Especially when that explanation is rooted in fuzzy feelings flavoured by mythology written by superstitious people who thought rainbows were magic.
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.'
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RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 19, 2015 at 2:20 am
CL, most of us atheists don't believe in woo.
God is only one of millions of things which are silly and don't make sense.
Basically, you just have to use the "logic" filter and you'll already know what we do and don't believe in.
eg: no supernatural stuff, no ghosts, no unicorns, no demonic possessions, no angels,etc
Just boring everyday real world stuff ... sorry...
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