Evidence

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Therefore, god.

Therefore proving how literal minded you can be.

No, your statement proved how literal minded you can be. If you don't get what I meant by what I said, then you need fixin'. Let me spell it out for you.

One fish tells the other that the evidence for what water is rests in the water. If it wasn't for the water, then how do you explain the very existence of the two fish in this scene? How do you explain all the sea creatures and plants? How would you explain the surface and the need for certain animals to go there, breathe, and then go back down? How would you explain the boats even? Open your eyes! Water is everywhere. It's in the animals you mingle with, and the ones you eat. It's in the beauty of the colors all around. Don't you see? So...

Fish, boats, sea plants, colors, surface, therefore, water. The problem with this analogy is that we know what water is composed of. We can contain it and study it. We can swim in it, drink it, watch animals live in it, etc. If you take a fish out of it, it dies. If you stop drinking it, you die.

So, open your eyes and see the proof of god everywhere. He's everywhere, man! Thing is, I stopped believing and I'm here. I stopped reading the Bible, and I'm still here. How do you want to study the role of the god in the world? Can you contain a few ounces so we can study it together? Do you know what it is composed of? How can you prove to me that what you call evidence is, well evidence? I see a rock, but what does that tell me about your god? Nothing. If the fish saw a coral reef, the fish can assume it's due to living in the ocean, because it requires water to survive. Apply that to the whole god thing. How does looking around and opening my eyes say anything about the god? Yeah, there's a cloud. I can explain that. Yeah, there's sand, I can explain that, too. There's life, yup. There's plants, yup. So... where does your god come in to fit that analogy?

I repeat, two old fish are talking about the temperature of the water. A young fish asks "what's water?" Therefore, god. Seems silly to me.