RE: Disproving Odin - An Experiment in arguing with a theist with Theist logic
March 7, 2018 at 6:41 pm
(March 7, 2018 at 4:07 pm)SteveII Wrote: For example, we can have reasonable certainty that the combination of Fire and Ice made drips that became giants and then they had children and one of them was Odin probably did not happen. So, we can offer metaphysical and historical defeaters to any combination of claims that Odin existed--making the cumulative case for his existence highly unlikely.
However, the same cannot be said for God. There are really no good arguments against the existence of God.
Actually the idea of fire and ice is at least more thermodynamically plausible. It is on the edge of chaos that interesting things such as life happens. Too little energy and nothing happens. Too much energy and no structures can persist for long and you just have chaos.
Conversely an eternal god is thermodynamically implausible for two reasons. First it violates the second law of thermodynamics because entropy can never decrease in an isolated system and no process is 100% efficient. Secondly, the formation of intelligence is best explained as a thermodynamic process.
