Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> If you want to believe that God exists, sure, you can do that. But if 
> you want to claim that this is a scientifically verified fact... erm, 
> no. No it is not. Get lost!

Almost every single "proof" of a god's existence amounts to a very
straightforward argument from ignorance. Almost all of them take,
basically, the form of:

"You have no explanation for this, therefore God."

All of the classical "proofs" are like that. For instance:

"The universe's existence must have had a cause (because my personal
common sense says so, and I'll ignore any possibility of the contrary.)
You can't explain what that cause was, therefore it was God."

"The universe is clearly designed for us in mind. You can't explain how
else it's like that, therefore it was made by God."

"The reader's digest version of the popular science version of scientific
law X (most often "thermodynamics") says this. Therefore God."

"Abstract concepts exist. They come from God. (Proof skipped as
unnecessary.)"

"Evolution cannot explain X. Therefore God."

And naturally "God" is never something like Brahma or Allah, or an entity
completely unknown to us. Of course it's always the God of the Bible.
What else?

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                                                          - Warp

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