RE: Why not deism?
October 1, 2019 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2019 at 10:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Full knowledge is an irrational concept, and an irrational requirement.
It has to be understood that when we say naturalism provides a complete accounting of x y and z, we're making that statement to the best of our knowledge and/or ability. Any comment that can be reduced to "but what about what you may not know?" is utterly worthless in the absence of some example to consider.
It's particularly worthless if god is supposed to be the example. As if, in the "unknown" box....a person can know that it contains a "god". Begging the question, in the process, of whether gods are in the unknown instead of known box in the first place.
In the end, the idea that we don't know everything is a deepity, and doesn't advance an argument for god, or even the possibility of a god. No more so than it would advance an argument for santa or the possibility of santa's existence.
It has to be understood that when we say naturalism provides a complete accounting of x y and z, we're making that statement to the best of our knowledge and/or ability. Any comment that can be reduced to "but what about what you may not know?" is utterly worthless in the absence of some example to consider.
It's particularly worthless if god is supposed to be the example. As if, in the "unknown" box....a person can know that it contains a "god". Begging the question, in the process, of whether gods are in the unknown instead of known box in the first place.
In the end, the idea that we don't know everything is a deepity, and doesn't advance an argument for god, or even the possibility of a god. No more so than it would advance an argument for santa or the possibility of santa's existence.
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