RE: Disproving Odin - An Experiment in arguing with a theist with Theist logic
March 12, 2018 at 3:23 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2018 at 3:27 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(March 11, 2018 at 8:17 pm)SteveII Wrote:(March 11, 2018 at 6:38 pm)Mathilda Wrote: But if God can't be defined then how can it be the best explanation for anything?
What is up with you? Why do you think God is not defined? There have been like 4,000,000 books written on the subject of God. Here's an idea: Google "defining the god of monotheism" and read a few things.
Give me a proper definition of what a god is then.
- What is it?
- What is it not?
- What is it made of?
- How can we determine whether something is a god or not a god?
- In other words, what observable characteristics does it have that sets it apart from non-gods?
- Where do you find it?
Take granite for example. The loose definition used to be coarse white or pink or grey crystalline rock. Pick up rock, show it to someone and they would be able to tell whether or not it was granite, sandstone or their imagination. Further observations led to many more specific definitions for all the different forms of granite out there until everyone could agree on what type of granite they were looking at.
Absolutely no one has the same definition of what a god is. You cannot come up with a definition which everyone agrees upon. Not even the loosest characteristics. At most there are some very vague characteristics that many people will agree on, but not everyone.
This is because your god does not exist and is imagined. And in fact the very term god is something that is not meant to be properly defined otherwise it loses its meaning.
(March 11, 2018 at 8:55 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: All theist arguments are god of the gaps by default .
And this is why a god cannot be defined. If you define it then all the explanations you use it for start to fail.