Organic Molecules Found 400 Light Years From Earth

[The Grand Nudger]

But none of this explains how you would be able to discern the difference. Is it rational to say you could test any proposed god without putting forth any standard for determining what evidence you would accept as evidence for and evidence against the proposition? Is it rational to say simply that one would know?

As to the probabilistic objections...didn't I withdraw mine!

The difference would be discernible in the specifics of their claim.  For example, if they asserted that it would be improbable to the point of impossibility that anything other than god played in the dirt, at least that much -should- be in evidence...but it is not.  Thus the necessary god who played in the dirt is falsified.  It is not necessary.  Come up with some other god, some other proposition.  Perhaps some other god exists, but not -that- god. Rinse and repeat with the next god.

An unnecessary god who maybe played in the dirt in ways indistinguishable from pure chance.  That's what your retraction leaves us.  Thing is, both of us know that you wont be satisfied with such a god and that you cannot help but propos a god that -is- distinguioshable from random this or thats. Perhaps not here, but somewhere, and in that somwhere, we will simply do this assessment again and find your god proposal demonstrably false in it's own specifics. If you ever do manage to come up with an unfalsifiable god, it would be the most unfortunate event for that god...since an unfalsifiable god, amusingly, is also an unconfirmable god. A god indistinguishable....from no god. Some god that would be, eh?

Suppose that there were such a god..who..sometimes, maybe, makes stuff that can be made at random by nothing in particular, and who...when he does deign to make stuff..makes it in such a way that no evidence thereof is left behind? Do you imagine people would flock to his temple? Is this -your- god? "I made this spoon, maybe, sure anyone can make a spoon and it sure looks like I didn;t make this one.....but I made this one, now bow or burn!"

Probably not, right>?

No...no other comments. I think we are understanding each other.

P.S. We still have a bazillion Legos at my house from when my kids were small. I wonder if there is an aftermarket for them.

Good, good.  So, uh, do you have like a paypal or something, because I'd buy them at steep discount for my own kids. I want to buy a 3d printer to make legos, this christmas, actually. I suppose it would be cheaper to get a pelleted form vacuum press, and I have the experience to run it...but I totally want a printer...so...... What I';m saying is this...you have a very short window to sell me your legos before I start to think that maybe I should charge -you- for the postage and waste disposal.....