RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
October 4, 2021 at 1:07 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2021 at 1:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, with respect to biology, we're not really dealing with some item or object or claim lacking evidence. The trouble, at least from a theological point of view..is that the evidence powerfully aligns against the proposal. To the point that, should we wish to maintain a rational and evidenced belief in god - it simply has to be conceded that god is in no direct or intentional way a part of the causal chain of a pretty fish. Even Kloro flirts with this immediately when the claim is given the slightest scrutiny - it can be said..fairly, that he's aware of this state of affairs. This, if this world is a world with god in it, is a concurrent truth. Fish are explained by biology, not gods. In our world, assuming it's that world with a god in it, biology also has the creative power claimed for a god in a direct equivalence.
Apologetics dooms itself when, to accept the conclusion, you must deny a reality that could otherwise accommodate a god. That's how a person ends up insisting that the god hypothesis is both empirically verifiable - with reference to a fish, but also empirically untestable. Why a person is then compelled to argue against the plainly and manifestly apparent fact that a persons religion is determined in the main by the circumstances of their birth. How god both nudges life...and is completely hands off. Tying a god belief to these absurdities is pointless, and, for people who give a shit about these things...heretical.
Insisting that the world, as god is contended to have made it..must somehow be wrong, so that a cultists errant beliefs can be right.
Apologetics dooms itself when, to accept the conclusion, you must deny a reality that could otherwise accommodate a god. That's how a person ends up insisting that the god hypothesis is both empirically verifiable - with reference to a fish, but also empirically untestable. Why a person is then compelled to argue against the plainly and manifestly apparent fact that a persons religion is determined in the main by the circumstances of their birth. How god both nudges life...and is completely hands off. Tying a god belief to these absurdities is pointless, and, for people who give a shit about these things...heretical.
Insisting that the world, as god is contended to have made it..must somehow be wrong, so that a cultists errant beliefs can be right.
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