RE: A One In An infinity Chance That God Exists. What Do You Guys Think?
June 14, 2012 at 7:25 pm
(June 14, 2012 at 2:49 pm)amateurlyinsightful Wrote: Cato, there is a philosophical argument made my Aristotle I believe, titled "the invisible rabbit", which says everything has a one in an infinity chance of existing, and his argument is right, but how does that disprove my argument
What Dawkins meant is that he believes there is a one in an infinity chance that God exists. There is no way to disprove god's existence. Therefore, saying for sure there is no god is idiotic
I agree that making a definitive claim that god does not exist is logically absurd, but there is absolutely no evidence for god so why consider it?
Your 1/∞ probability for the existence of god is flawed. All you have claimed is that god is one 'imagined' entity in an infinite set of 'imagined' creative forces. This says absolutely nothing about what actually created the universe and therefore is not a probability of existence.
Whatever created the universe (even if just the consequence of an as yet unkown natural law) exists and despite our ignorance can be said to have the probability of existence of 1. All other imagined creative forces have the probability of existence of 0. Unless of course there are other creative forces, but just not the one responsible for the creation of our universe.
We can say something 'probably' exists such as the Higgs boson and dark matter because the mathematical models predict them, but we still have the obligation of providing empirical evidence before stating 'there it is'.
