(April 8, 2013 at 7:02 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(April 8, 2013 at 6:53 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Yet it would not prove the universe exists. In fact, in philosophy, it's pretty much admitted, you can't prove physical world exists. It's a properly basic belief.
Well now we are just talking about degrees of certainty. Lets say I measure the radiation levels of the sun, I measure it's light waves, I measure the gravity effect it has on us. Can I say with absolute certainty that it exists? No. I could posit that it's a very complex hallucination or I'm in the Matrix, etc. However what's the evidence for either of those? Nothing. It's the same with God. That's why I think the argument is not absurd. Dealing with things in a strictly black and white 100% or 0% terms is the only way in which the argument can be made to look absurd. Since that's not the case, and things have various probabilities, it stands.
You can measure how tall Mario is in Mario 64 relative to the pixel, it doesn't mean it's a real world at all. You haven't even show it's possible for physical world to exist, let alone evidence that it does exist.
