RE: If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?
January 8, 2024 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2024 at 5:57 pm by Sicnoo0.)
(January 8, 2024 at 5:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Puny humans insisting that the entire universe and gods too all conform to the rules of a semantic game we came up with for irritating each other.
OFC.... if magic exists.... all bets are off. Nothing works the way we think it does or how it looks.
personally, I'd prefer to give up on my previously held beliefs one at a time
If magic exists, fine. That doesn't mean I have to assume that married bachelors might be possible, too.
There are different kinds of magic, and for all I know the type of magic that can defy logic is still entirely fictional.
If god said to me "I'll bet you a million dollars I can create a married bachelor", I'd call his bluff and accept his bet.
However, if he said "I bet I can turn water into wine", I'd be too hesitant to assume he can't
I can totally imagine a god that can defy the currently known laws of physics and disregard everything we thought we knew about chemistry
But a logic-bender sounds to me like something that can only exist in fiction.
It sounds like you think logic is invented rather than discovered. I'm not prepared to have that debate, but I can say that I'm very confident no god could violate the law of identity, the law of noncontradiction or the law of excluded middle
When it comes to more complicated topics related to logic, I'm willing to concede that maybe certain logics do not at all correspond to the real world. But even things like many-valued logic, fuzzy logic and quantum logic all seem to be useful for dealing with the real world in certain contexts, so I'd argue they correspond to reality.
