RE: reasons to believe, there is no God
March 1, 2010 at 4:43 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2010 at 4:45 am by Violet.)
Watson Wrote:I came to what now? Wrong. I came to the conclusion, by observing reality, that it is entirely within God's nature to do something such as having a son 2000 years ago. That does not necessarily mean it happened, it just means that it could happen.
There is an interesting thing about reality that I've noticed... it's that if something didn't happen, it probably couldn't have happened. If it isn't possible without changing the things, place, or the time they were there... then it wasn't possible.
To illustrate this... say I am playing a game of chess with a friend. They have lost the last 5 consecutive games, and are clearly not having fun any more. I again have the chance to checkmate them, and instead choose to trade my queen with my friend's knight (Because of wanting my friend to have more fun, and perhaps more selfishly to keep them playing).
You might say "Well, you could have checkmated them"... but for that to be true: my disposition towards my friend would have had to have been different (or any number of modifications to the situation to allow such an outcome). Another example that might be simpler: I am 'physically' capable of intentionally killing you... but I really couldn't. Why? Because of my mental state.
So while you say it could happen that "God" had a son 2000 years ago... I say that it depends fully on wether it happened or not.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day