RE: Evidence god does not exist
August 24, 2010 at 10:11 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2010 at 10:12 pm by Captain Scarlet.)
(August 24, 2010 at 6:11 pm)The Omnissiunt One Wrote:For me this is a very real problem for theism. It has to assert that there is a part of existence that is unaccounted for and that the uni, multi, manyverse is not the totality of existence. This means we cannot in effect reason to god from analogy because analogies only work by reference to the totality of what we know exists. On the face of it this immediately rules out arguments from design and the cosmological arguments. Leaving ontological arguments (which is as close to you get to bootstrapping a god into existence by definition only), moral arguments (for which there are naturalist defeaters), tag type arguments (which seem poor) and personal experience (which outside of each individual carry little weight).'fr0d0 Wrote:According to you Evie (from past statements), a huge amount of what we can understand is physical. Given those odds what we can understand to be non physical is severely reduced.
Everything non-physical that we know of is either conceptual (a product of thought) or thought itself (unless you're a radical materialist, in which case the latter doesn't apply). Therefore, God is likely to be conceptual i.e. non-existent.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.