(January 11, 2014 at 7:21 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(January 11, 2014 at 7:07 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Those are interesting questions but if your point is that conceding that "God exists" is meaningless would therefore mean that "big bang happened" is also meaningless and that conceding that would be a terrible thing, then you're just doing the appeal to consequences fallacy.Quite the opposite captain. (yeah... you like the sound of that, don't you?)
We typically concede that "big bang happened" is meaningful. We even endeavor to find the most precise timing for that big bang.
If this is meaningful, then knowing that there is a god is also meaningful. Perhaps more meaningful, if that god wishes to interact with us... perhaps as meaningful, if that god is oblivious to our existence.
Now, if enter the realm of mental masturbation, then anything can be said about such an entity... Do we really want to fill up the forum's Database with all that drivel?
Can you articulate why the "big bang happened" without appealing to fallacious reasoning such as appeal to tradition? Your whole line of reasoning is "big bang is meaningful because everyone has always acted like it is."
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
