RE: Attention Theists! Present your best argument for the existence of God!
February 11, 2011 at 7:45 am
(February 10, 2011 at 5:28 pm)theVOID Wrote:(February 10, 2011 at 7:22 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(February 10, 2011 at 2:58 am)fr0d0 Wrote: God's existence can't be known. Bomb proof.
If gods existence cannot be known(i.e proven) then the only logical conclusion is that he doesn't exist.
Same as unicorns, trolls, Russells teapot and Jesus.
Lacking knowledge about P does not mean you can conclude logically that ~P, it simply means you have no knowledge that P... It doesn't even say anything about whether or not your beleifs are justified, for example; I don't have knowledge that my cellphone will cease to function in about a week but I believe it will because of numerous flaws that I have encountered recently that seem to be very typical indicators of Nokia failures - My belief that my phone will cease to function is justified despite my not knowing.
But you have demonstrable indications that your phone will fail. (Nokias are rubbish)
My point being that god might well exist, along with unicorns, trolls etc. but belief without evidence is, well, unfounded.
There could be a planet circling a blue giant in M33 in Andromeda.
Statisically this is very likely, but without evidence will you believe this, or state it to be the case?
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.