RE: Proving the Bible is false in few words.
May 14, 2010 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2010 at 4:54 pm by Caecilian.)
(May 14, 2010 at 4:19 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: What I said was, it can be completely detected and not detected at all, depending on your outlook. We're crossing assent with empirical proof here. Of course God can never be proven empirically, but faith from the assention of evidence we accept and trust is enough to believe.
Okay, thats fine. No empirical evidence for god can ever be found, so if a given phenomenon has an explanation, there will always be a naturalistic explanation for it. The rest of my post is therefore unaffected. I'll repeat myself.
It therefore follows that:
1. Anything that could be explained with reference to god, could be explained at least as well without reference to god. Thus 'god' has zero explanatory value.
2. 'Miracles' either didn't happen, or have a naturalistic explanation.
3. Following on from 2, the bible becomes a collection of myths.
And what is true of god is also presumably true of other putative immaterial entities, such as angels and souls. So perhaps you'd like to agree or disagree with the following:
Quote:All facts, including all phenomenal facts, are metaphysically necessitated by the microphysical facts. If P is a statement that reports all the microphysical facts and Q is a statement that reports all phenomenal facts...then:Think carefully, fr0d0. The quote above is a widely accepted formulation of materialist monism.
(Entailment Thesis) P -> Q is metaphysically necessary.
Do you want to join the Dark Side, fr0d0?
The dark side is beautiful fr0d0, and you're already half way there.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche