RE: Enough of this crap, I want to hear directly from god
November 18, 2020 at 7:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2020 at 7:00 pm by R00tKiT.)
(November 18, 2020 at 6:25 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The general, well established tendency of children to think teleologically could be a cultural or behavioral tick entirely unrelated to whether there is any purpose in natural phenomena,
Sure, behavioral trick... and children aren't usually into culture yet.
(November 18, 2020 at 6:25 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: yes...exactly this, yes,

Let me then clarify further,
In a world without gear manufacturers, the term gear is ill defined. Nobody ever saw a world where gears exist without their manufacturers- did you?.. yet you had no problem with that, you had no problem with dealing with the properties of a set that might be empty.
The assertion : "In a world without god, something" can be equivalent to "In the empty set, something".
You have to be certain that a world without god can exist. Certain.
I, on the other hand, don't need to, since I didn't deny the existence of such a being, I only deal with this observable world, as it is, and then try to make reasonable inferences.
(November 18, 2020 at 6:25 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If what you're telling us, above, is that you can think of no satisfying explanation for absolutely anything, then that's too bad, I guess you'll have to be stuck with no satisfying explanation for anything, plugging that gap in your own knowledge with the same fairies that children to invent to explain how chickens came to be for laying eggs.
I am actually imploring you to think of the only reasonable explanation, that there is only one world we observe and that it points to its manufacturer.