(November 28, 2018 at 12:52 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: My point here is your relying on a fallible interpretation to show that something else is fallible.
You'd think a "god" could do better, no?
What would you consider better and why would it be an improvement? What you're asking is subjective. That is why in the sciences we attempt to define things and measure them. If I say "my cake is better than your cake", it's probably true to you but maybe not to me, but it doesn't make you wrong, but rather opinionated about the cake you can bake. If I was to tell you that your cake wasn't good enough, you would probably want an explanation as to the issue I had with the cake or how I think you could make it better. It doesn't mean your cake was garbage or that I didn't think it was edible. You could even bake a new cake to my standards, and the next person could easily come along and say your cake sucks. Maybe I told you to add sugar, you listened, and they said it was too sweet for them.
Subjective views have merit, but you gotta take them in stride. I try not to go out of my way to tell anybody that their belief isn't good enough, because it's probably more useful to identify the things we can agree on.
