RE: Do you wish there's a god?
March 22, 2019 at 6:37 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2019 at 6:38 pm by fredd bear.)
"I think you'll see from the replies that people here focus their not-belief on a very specific image of God. Basically a naive literalist reading of the early Old Testament. "
Oh,dear, more unfounded wishful thinking. There is probably is some consensus that YWH as described in the Torah is a pretty disgusting figure. However. I've never noticed the atheist beliefs being so restricted in their disbelief.
The broad ideas I've seen reject the concept of a supreme being of any kind, due to a complete lack of proof of any non corporeal being(s).
Russell's teapot can be applied to any God you care to name. Because you've never bothered to define your god, I'm assuming he's the god of the Torah and New Testament, but it doesn't really matter.
(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((9))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.
Russell specifically applied his analogy in the context of religion.[1] He wrote that if he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.
Russell's teapot is still invoked in discussions concerning the existence of God, and has had influence in various fields and media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Oh,dear, more unfounded wishful thinking. There is probably is some consensus that YWH as described in the Torah is a pretty disgusting figure. However. I've never noticed the atheist beliefs being so restricted in their disbelief.
The broad ideas I've seen reject the concept of a supreme being of any kind, due to a complete lack of proof of any non corporeal being(s).
Russell's teapot can be applied to any God you care to name. Because you've never bothered to define your god, I'm assuming he's the god of the Torah and New Testament, but it doesn't really matter.
(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((9))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.
Russell specifically applied his analogy in the context of religion.[1] He wrote that if he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.
Russell's teapot is still invoked in discussions concerning the existence of God, and has had influence in various fields and media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot