RE: Argument against atheism
December 19, 2011 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2011 at 1:20 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 19, 2011 at 1:00 pm)Darwinning Wrote:(December 19, 2011 at 12:57 pm)amkerman Wrote: You might believe that "lungs" are little dwarfs living in your stomach that open your nasal passages and invite air in.
That is the most intelligible and rational thing you have posted here in a long, long time.
I am not sure how one totally unintelligible and irrational thing is less totally unintelligible and irrational thing.
1. He attempts to broaden the definition of lungs to "anything that might make my statement true". Thus making the use of the word "lungs" comically equivalent to "any mechansim whatsoever". Undoubtedly he meant to prepare ground for expanding this flaccidity further to "God must exist because I can define god to be whatever it takes to make that statement appear true to me".
2. Even then his statement is not demonstrateably true. There is no evidence the notion of "mechanism" is essential to abstract catagorization of perceived biological function. No conception of any mechanism is required to conceptualize a specific group of neuromuscular sensation that possess the rather pursuasive benefit of warding off the irritating feeling of suffocation. His position is so preposterous, and his powers so weak, that even given his ludicrous flaccid standards, he fails to pass.