(December 27, 2015 at 1:17 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(December 27, 2015 at 12:19 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Again, the exact argument for why God might exist.
So? God by some non self contradictory definition might exist is a perfectly sound position, as is God by any non self contradictory definition might not exist. That a specific God does indeed exist is the as yet totally unsupportable position which is effectively a willful delusion. That you ought to crave the favor a specific God allegedly offers for your believing his existence even when his existence is otherwise unsupported is where the position goes from unsupportable and delusional to utterly disgusting.
My problem with the argument is the same with both, if we have to conclude that it's possible for something to exisit when part of the imagined characteristic of it is the ability to conceal itself, then infinite imaginary things are possible to exist. Why not leprechauns? Also both are only possible when kept so vague that their hypothetical existence becomes pretty pointless. These aliens could be literally anything. So the only real statement that someone is making is that something undetectable (from another planet) might exist. It's logically possible but also extremely pointless. The reality is there is no credible evidence that aliens have visited earth, no conceivable mechanism for them to conceal themselves from us so completely and no reason for them to. Aliens have not visited earth and that's the reality of the situation.