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Atheist Becomes Catholic
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RE: Atheist Becomes Catholic
I think his point is founded in the typical idea that since there are aspects of reality that exist even though they cannot be proven, anything that is unprovable should not be discarded just because it's unprovable because it has just as equal a likelihood of existing, because the only thing we can supposedly rely on is our own subjective conscious awareness. This is a typical black-and-white way of looking at the universe and the ideas of subjectivity, and as is the case with anyone who sees things only in black and white, SoC doesn't see the shades of grey. Something that is unprovable, yet clearly present, necessarily exists because of its absolutely consistent presence. Something that is unprovable, and present only to some and not to others and is subjective viewpoints and experiences that cannot be tested nor verified, does not necessarily exist because it is completely unreliable in its supposed existence. If it is unprovable, and claims for it are unreliable, unverifiable, and/or contradictory, it is not on the same level as a tangible, testable entity. He was trying to use an aged, over-used attempt to use philosophy to try to draw the argument into unanswerable questions, but the problem with it is that the statement is a very weak attempt to validate the likelihood of a god.
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