(July 20, 2013 at 12:59 am)christcahinkilla Wrote: i wouldn't try to prove or disprove either, i am comfortable admitting that i don't know.
Oh see, we have to test whether our lack of belief is true but it's ok for you to absent yourself from the experiment? Textbook special pleading.
(July 20, 2013 at 12:59 am)christcahinkilla Wrote: people have searched, yes, but how far are we? we are still on one planet in a solar system that is one tiny part of a galaxy that is only one little piece of the universe.
Except that the only sort of god entity that can possibly concern us here on this planet is one with some influence, however slight, in our world and its affairs. The effects of such influence have to be detectable and therefore testable, by definition, or else there really is no point even speculating about them. If you want to posit a god or godlike entity somewhere out there in the Universe that's fine, but if we can't detect it and it can't (or won't) interact with us, why should we give a crap about it? The simplest and most intellectually honest position in all such cases is always the null hypothesis.
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.'
