RE: Can you make a God claim?
January 8, 2015 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2015 at 1:02 pm by robvalue.)
For example, claiming there is an omniscient God who gives us free will is an inconsistent claim (as I think I demonstrated in another thread). So it's pointless to put forward because it cannot be true, unless you are to demonstrate that contradictions can exist and logic doesn't apply, or something.
It's also untestable, if I give no way in which this God can be distinguished from nothing.
Hehe yeah. I dunno, might make someone think about what it is they "believe" and why.
There has been more productive discussion on this thread than I've seen on many others, I've seen much more thoughtful comments. We may never get to what I asked for, but I feel some people have stopped to think a little bit which is great.
I take the point alpha male, I could have done better in my OP. The consistency part was perhaps a bit overdone, it was an attempt to stop absurd claims that make utterly no sense, or which make wild unsubstantiated assumptions. Let's focus on a testable claim. And as cat sniper pointed out, this means it must be falsifiable. Or else it's just a proclamation of truth, or presentation of the unknowable.
It's also untestable, if I give no way in which this God can be distinguished from nothing.
Hehe yeah. I dunno, might make someone think about what it is they "believe" and why.
There has been more productive discussion on this thread than I've seen on many others, I've seen much more thoughtful comments. We may never get to what I asked for, but I feel some people have stopped to think a little bit which is great.
I take the point alpha male, I could have done better in my OP. The consistency part was perhaps a bit overdone, it was an attempt to stop absurd claims that make utterly no sense, or which make wild unsubstantiated assumptions. Let's focus on a testable claim. And as cat sniper pointed out, this means it must be falsifiable. Or else it's just a proclamation of truth, or presentation of the unknowable.
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