RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
September 8, 2021 at 5:31 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2021 at 5:40 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 8, 2021 at 12:28 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(September 8, 2021 at 11:47 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: I am saying it is as totally and complete indistinguishable from nonexistence as any arbitrary bullshit things any bullshitter ever cared to make up on the spur of amt moment, which is indeed the very maximally strong assertion of no existence as can ever be leveled at any notional thing whatsoever.
Not really, God isn't equivalent to Russell's teapot. Russell's teapot is an arbitrary object inside the universe. God is posited to be the cause of the universe. Positing a personal cause of the universe can't really be put hand to hand with any arbitrary assertion about existence.
Also, proving God's existence can have an effect in our life. If we prove the theistic God, then an afterlife very probably exists, and answering prayers becomes possible, etc. Proving Russell's teapot, for example, won't change anything, and doesn't imply an afterlife.
Doesn’t matter what additional ad hoc qualifier you dream up that appears to you to make your ad hoc bullshit god harder to disprove. Disproval was totally unneeded to dismiss your god before you dreamt up the qualifier, it is just as totally unneeded afterwards.
Without your qualifier, Your god can be trivially dismissed as something that could not possibly be more bullshitty. with the additions of your qualifier, it can still be dismissed with the exact same level of certainty as being of exactly that same sublime level of bullshittiness.
Btw, the fact that existence of something may appear to you to have some effect that you would weakwittedly crave, does not in any way contribute to making that thing even slightly more likely to actually exist, much less contribute to a formulating a passable proof of such a thing existing.