Quote:From the simple fact that we know how to add, no, God does not follow from that. However, in the 2nd part of my argument I explained how the ability to add cannot come from us. If it did, we would be able to add instantaneously because we would always have this ability. The way it is now, we have to think and process problems with larger numbers, essentially waiting for this ability to come to us so we can know the solution. That means the ability to add doesn't come from us, so who does it come from? Someone who is in charge of our minds and our understanding, and who knows how to add.
I have to go with no for this for the following reasons:
If I am asked: "What is 6 and 9?" I answer immediately 15 without thinking about it. This is because I have learned that sum and am merely recalling the answer. My answer is instinctive - often I will then re-do the sum in my head just to check as it does feel the answer sprang out of nowhere.
On the other hand if I am asked what is 2346 + 9456 I will have to work it out as that is not a sum I have remembered (or even possibly ever done).
These answers may come from somewhere else - but if they do that somewhere else is a different part of the Brain - not an external source.
This is true of a great many day to day interactions. Responses are instinctive as they come from immediate memory.
What is interesting is to meet people that have different abilities / brains and see how they use this facility. For example, my brother is autistic and is what is known as an Calenderical Savant. You tell him a date - he tells you the day - for about a 100 year period (around 1950 to 2050). He does this almost instantly. If you ask him how he does it he simply says he "sees it."
2 of the kids he used to live with (he lives in sheltered accommodation) used to do a similar thing with prime numbers. Apparently they could manipulate 17 digit prime numbers as easily as we do the sum 5+3.
In simple terms you are confusing brain complexity with a god.
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