(November 5, 2012 at 11:55 am)Drich Wrote:
So it was a failure because you were not witnessed to any God type magic?
James Randi once gave a lecture at Caltech in which he spoke of how you can't, generally, prove a negative through the example of a thought experiment to prove that reindeer can't fly. The video is available on YouTube and I'd post it here if I thought that those of us in most need of seeing it would take the time to do so; however, the relevant portion goes something like this. Suppose you stand at the top of the Empire State Building with a thousand reindeer, which you then push over the edge one by one. As you watch the pile of broken reindeer build up at the base of the building, surrounded by increasingly confused New York cops, you can start to form one of two conclusions. Either these particular reindeer on this particular occasion could not fly, or they chose not to. You haven't proved that it's impossible for reindeer to fly.
Similarly with your apparently insightful observation. What you are proposing is that God, for reasons known only to itself, either cannot or chooses not to display "God type magic" in response to experiments designed specifically to test for it. We are perfectly entitled to form our own conclusions from such reasoning, for want of a better word.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
