(January 10, 2015 at 4:30 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(January 10, 2015 at 4:08 pm)IATIA Wrote: I can conceive of a flying pink unicorn. I can conceive that we are nothing but emoticons on someone's smart phone. I can conceive that we did not exist until two minutes ago and all our memories are preprogrammed templates. I can conceive that time travel exists and we are nothing but shadows of the past.
You can't reasonably conceive that those are true. The difference.
Why not? If someone had heard the Christian story for the first time, it would sound as crazy as what IATA writes.
I think that I have what robo wanted.
Humans seek out patterns in everything. How many times have you looked up in the sky and noted that clouds form figures? The need to find a reason for a bigger purpose in life was implanted in us by a deity and is based on our need to find patterns. We naturally try and find pattern in the events in our life because god wants us to find him/her/it. You can test human need to find patterns.
Note: I am not arguing for the existence of god but I'd like to hear some argument that didn't also make possible the existence of fairies and goblins.
