(February 26, 2016 at 12:58 am)Minimalist Wrote: The issue is probability - not impossibility.
^This.
From where I sit, I can see a large rock in my back garden. It's a little over two metres long, perhaps half that high. Other than being somewhat decorative, there's really nothing special about it. It's your typical biggish rock - kind of off-gray, a little mossy, and sports the occasional frog.
In my life - for gardening and construction purposes - I've broken apart perhaps a hundred rocks. In every instance, what was inside each rock was...more rock. Now, there is a probability that the rock in my garden isn't filled with more rock, but with cream custard. I consider this to be a very low probability because I've never found custard in any other rock. Moreover, I've never even heard of anyone finding custard in a rock. In all of the vast experience of the human species when it comes to opening up rocks, no one has ever reported a custard-filled rock. To even conjecture that some rocks, or even a single, unique rock contains custard is not only so low a probability as to be a waste of time, the Custard-In-A-Rock hypothesis doesn't help us learn anything about rocks. Does this mean that it is impossible for rocks to contain custard. Nope. But that doesn't mean I'm going to spend any thought or effort trying to convince people that they should be open-minded about the possibility.
So, in a sense, God is nothing more than a custard-filled rock.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
