RE: Can you make a God claim?
January 10, 2015 at 6:19 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2015 at 6:20 pm by IATIA.)
(January 10, 2015 at 4:30 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:There is absolutely no difference between that and "conceiving" of an invisible 'sky-daddy'.(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.
Your words. QUOTE: "Because we can concieve that it's true means that we cannot rule it out."
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy