WLC: "You can't prove the negative"

[Jehanne]

Just so that we are clear, the Greeks were pagans (that is, polytheistic), and if you read Homer, the gods were constantly intervening in the affairs of we mortals; that's what the Greeks, Plato included, believed, Romans, too.

The FSM, albeit a silly parody, would be comparable to those gods (like Zeus and such) but not comparable to God in the first cause kind of sense.

The latter is a product of millennia of intellectual thinking on metaphysical matters, and is a reasonable metaphysical position that one may take depending on their epistemological starting points.

Like the four humors?

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"The Greeks" were not a monolithic group.

Have you read any Plato at all? That would clear things up.

The Early, Middle and Late Dialogues, yes, and, of course, The Republic. In the latter the statement is found, "If the gods exist...." In the Timaeus, it was argued that we live in a geocentric Universe with circular motion with the Sun, Venus and Mercury moving at equal speeds with the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn moving at unequal speeds.