RE: What would make me accept the existence of a deity?
January 23, 2013 at 9:55 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2013 at 9:56 pm by Celi.)
(January 23, 2013 at 2:30 pm)apophenia Wrote: How does one judge whether something is a god if not by the effects? What criteria would "rule in" a god? It sounds like you would rule out any and all potential gods. If they have a method, their godhood is technological and not real; if they have no method, you eliminate the hypothesis as being an argument from ignorance. It sounds like you've rigged the game so that no god can possibly win. That seems to make your disbelief as irrational as the belief of those who accept a god based on too little evidence.Keep in mind that the very thing that qualifies one as God rather than a sufficiently advanced being is the ability to literally do the impossible. So to prove that you're God, you'd have to 1) do something impossible, and 2) prove that what you just did is impossible. That doesn't make sense, which is appropriate, because doing something impossible requires you to do something that, on some level, just doesn't make sense.
So I don't think there's any way that first-hand evidence could rule in God's existence. I might go up to 3 at highest on the Dawkins scale, but no more.
