RE: Defying Occam's Razor to Explain Random Events
May 3, 2014 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2014 at 4:32 pm by Confused Ape.)
(May 3, 2014 at 3:48 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: I think this reasoning could be used to argue that the religions that have had believers are more likely to be true than hypothetical religions that nobody ever believed.
If people occasionally serve as channels for the divine, then the world's religions were not random, and there is an increased probability that the pagan gods really exist. Okay, you think, but we have no reason to think people ever serve as channels of the divine. However, if it's possible (however improbable) that they occasionally do, then the existence of pagans gods has a higher probability of existence than that of the globoprasaurus that I just invented two seconds ago.
How can you be certain that you invented the globoprasaurus? Maybe you channelled a god who has never been worshipped before and he/she/it wants you to start a religion for him/her/it
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?