Neo-Scholastic Wrote:AceBoogie Wrote:You people have been shouting and screaming about fairies at the bottom of the garden for the past god knows how many years... Then telling us that we have the burden of proving you wrong. Goddam, you're like little petulant children shouting, "Yeah, but you cannot DISPROVE god's existence!"
Not exactly. We are saying that the proposition "God exists' is the most parsimonious explanation that accounts for the most observable facts about reality. You're saying that it doesn't without providing a coherent alternative or appealing to brute facts to avoid the principle of sufficient reason.
Parsimony is not adding entities to an explanation that aren't required. Your burden is to show that reality with 'God exists' is more parsimonious than reality without 'God exists'. Just saying that it's more parsimonious doesn't make it so. And 'God did it' is no different from 'a magical sparkly unicorn did it' in terms of actually accounting for facts about reality. It's avoiding actually trying to account for (explain by providing details) facts about reality.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
