RE: If someone says to me "consciousness, therefore god", what's the best way to respond?
February 10, 2016 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2016 at 1:56 pm by DanTheOutlaw.)
My response to" consciousness, therefore god" would be "how do you know?"
When they ask about how we got from clumps of sub-atomic particles/atoms/cells to being conscious I'd respond, "I don't know but just because I don't have a good answer does that mean I should blindly accept a bad answer, how do you know it was god?"
I never make the assertion that a god doesn't exist because then the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate the claim and it also doesn't make sense to pretend to know the unknowable. It's much easier just saying that you don't believe in a god and asking questions then watching them trip up over themselves with endless logical fallacies.
When they ask about how we got from clumps of sub-atomic particles/atoms/cells to being conscious I'd respond, "I don't know but just because I don't have a good answer does that mean I should blindly accept a bad answer, how do you know it was god?"
I never make the assertion that a god doesn't exist because then the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate the claim and it also doesn't make sense to pretend to know the unknowable. It's much easier just saying that you don't believe in a god and asking questions then watching them trip up over themselves with endless logical fallacies.
A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist. - Matt Dillahunty
