(October 7, 2018 at 9:07 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: I believe I exist.
My evidence for my own existence is as follows.
I can see myself. I can feel myself.
My body has mass. I can weigh it.
I can displace water in a tub.
I reflect light. Other people can see me, can feel me.
There is a long list that I won't get into.
I believe my phone exists.
I can offer similar evidence for why I believe it exists.
I don't provide arguments to help prove that my phone exists. I provide my phone to prove it exists.
Does anyone have any tangible proof that a god exists ?
At the most basic level, our sun is a source of heat & light that appears each day in our lives. It is circular in appearance and at times can be blocked by the moon.
This is how people might have described the attributes of the sun many thousands of years ago.
They had no idea what it was made of or what happened within it on an atomic level or how much gravity it asserted on our planet.
They only knew a couple basic attributes, but those attributes allowed us to detect it's existence, even if we only knew .001% about it.
When it comes to a god, we know nothing.
A god could present itself in a godly human looking form for all to see. It could give off light that we could see. I could manafest in reality so that we would know it existed.
Well it could, if it really existed.
I don't believe it does.
In one of my hands I have an extremely small universe that contains a god.
In the other hand I have an extremely small universe that doesn't contain a god.
Can you determine which is which ?
To conclude.
Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
Assume you are a game developer, you can easily interact with the world you create, but you cannot physically enter it. You can create an avatar/character representing yourself, but that is also coded the same as all other characters or existences in that world, bound by its rules. From the perspective of the characters in that world at most, you can appear as a super-intelligent being, but proving yourself as the creator is near impossible if they are unwilling to believe.
As for your existence, that's debatable too, everything you can do to verify your existence are mere signals being interpreted by your brain, and the brain is quite good at misinterpreting things. But that aside, what proof do you have of my existence or of anyone else here? All you have representing me is a bunch of words, strung together not always in a very coherent fashion, a user-image obviously of no real human, and a name that too is not exactly real.
PS: I am bored
PPS: am I a good theist?
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