Messin' With Atheists

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

He is saying, unless we know everything possible to know, we should not rule out the possibility of knowing God.

This is true.

It manifestly is not true.  Sagan had a wonderful essay in Broca's Brain called 'Reflections On A Grain Of Salt'.  In brief:

Pure table salt is made of chlorine and sodium atoms, nothing else. In one grain of salt, there are more atoms than there are bits of information storable in the human brain.  Thus, it is impossible to know the position of every single atom in our grain.  We do, however, know the properties of sodium and chlorine, so we know how these atoms bind together.  We can even 'map out' the grain, so we know that if we look at a particular spot, we will find either a sodium atom or a chlorine atom.  We will never find, for example, an atom of helium or argon or astatine.

Thus, we don't always need to know everything to know what is or isn't there.  Ain't we the clever ones?

Boru