RE: What would evidence of a God even look like?
August 17, 2016 at 12:19 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 12:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 14, 2016 at 5:14 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: I'm talking about any kind of Gods here. I notice that we, atheists, generally tell theists they should show some evidence for their claims. I'm wondering, is any sort of evidence even possible? What kind of evidence could conceivably prove the existence of a supernatural being that created everything?It would look like whatever we'd expect given their description of the diety. If they say it;s a pink elephant in the sky...we look up and see if there any pink elephants. If they say it created us all last tuesday we check to see what we were up to on monday.
Quote:This goes back to why I became an atheist in the first place. The original argument that propelled my atheism seems very solid to me even now, and might even justify a position of strong atheism. Thing is, given the nature of what we're talking about with theism, I really don't think it's a question science(in the "traditional" sense) can or should even attempt to answer. I think it's more of a philosophical question, if you will.Theists like to think that too....you're both wrong. God believers make testable claims...and that's understandable..because human beings really don't give -any- shits about things that aren't testable, things that don't relate to -us-......in this world. They think god does shit, is detectable, and knowable.
Quote:My argument goes like this. If there's a God that created the Universe(the Universe being everything in existence) then this God is either a part of the Universe or the Universe itself.Uncogent and uninformative.
It can't be merely a part of it, since it created it, so it must be the Universe itself. But then, there's no use calling it God. You might as well do away with the shady language and call it what it is. Nature, Universe, Cosmos. Whatever your secular preference.
Thoughts?
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