(March 10, 2017 at 4:31 pm)irontiger Wrote: Interact on what medium ?
Touch, smell, hear, et cetera. The ant can interact with the human. It can make quantifiable, objective statements about the human, and support those statements with evidence.
(March 10, 2017 at 4:31 pm)irontiger Wrote: It can sense something is there but does not what it is. If a dog and human where in the yard the ant may sense both are there but can not distinguish between them, from the point of view of the ant, it senses something, it will not know a human or dog in the way we know it and therefore conclude neither a dog nor a human exists
Simply false.
Assuming sapience on the part of the ant, there are objective, quantifiable differences between the dog and the human that it can understand. One is covered in hair; the other is not. One barks; the other does not. One is a quadruped; the other is not. And so on.
There are no such quantifiable, objective characteristics for God.
"Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it."
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
