Quote:If I just make up a word, like grobidorf, and then say it is a type of dragon which lives beneath the surface of the Sun this is meaningless because I have never observed or detected a dragon living beneath the Sun's surface, and it is impossible to verify. If I make up another word, God, and say it created the entire universe, this, too, is meaningless because such an assumption is impossible to verify.
Why are either of those meaningless? Something unverifiable is just something unverifiable isn't it? How does unverifiable=meaningless? If it's unverifiable then it's irrational to believe in and hence why I'm an atheist... but just because that something (God in this case) is unverifiable doesn't mean it has no meaning. If the concept of God= the creator of the universe and I disbelieve that because it's unverifiable... then that means based on what that means and the lack of evidence for it, I disbelieve it. If it meant something different entirely that was verifiable and had evidence then I'd believe it. The fact that whether it's unverifiable or not has meaning over whether I believe it or not (and the fact that the definition of "God" and "verifiable" and "unverifiable" all have meaning in the sense that those words... mean things) shows it isn't meaningless. Unverifiable is unverifiable, verifiable is verifiable - what's meaningless about either? They're both equally meaningful - one means something is verifiable the other means something is unverifiable. They both mean different things and hence there is meaning in both cases.
What am I missing here?
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