RE: Dear Resident Theists
August 19, 2015 at 4:06 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2015 at 4:12 am by robvalue.)
You think the story is more appealing? Hmm.
It's still a story. The problem is when you assume one of the religious stories has to be true. That's a wild and unsupported assumption. "God", if there is one, has an infinity of possibilities. To cut it down for convenience to the popular story books is... not sure what the word is. It's certainly not rational. It's basically an appeal to popularity.
I'm personally happy to give people deism for free, some sort of intelligent creator. I'm confident it's impossible to logically get from there to "my story book character" without extreme use of logical fallacies. I highlighted one already, just in narrowing it down to a few characters in books.
Don Baker said it best. Either this God interacts with our reality, or he doesn't. If he does, we should see clear signs of it. If he doesn't, he is irrelevant.
The "signs" people see amount to an argument from ignorance every time, simply attributing an action to their personal favourite character. And since this can be done for any potential God, it proves nothing about who actually did it, if anyone.
It's still a story. The problem is when you assume one of the religious stories has to be true. That's a wild and unsupported assumption. "God", if there is one, has an infinity of possibilities. To cut it down for convenience to the popular story books is... not sure what the word is. It's certainly not rational. It's basically an appeal to popularity.
I'm personally happy to give people deism for free, some sort of intelligent creator. I'm confident it's impossible to logically get from there to "my story book character" without extreme use of logical fallacies. I highlighted one already, just in narrowing it down to a few characters in books.
Don Baker said it best. Either this God interacts with our reality, or he doesn't. If he does, we should see clear signs of it. If he doesn't, he is irrelevant.
The "signs" people see amount to an argument from ignorance every time, simply attributing an action to their personal favourite character. And since this can be done for any potential God, it proves nothing about who actually did it, if anyone.
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