But how can I be sure that you are a fellow human being rather than a bot that will only waste my time?
Perhaps if you defined what you are through some assemblage of words, it would help. — Mariner
'I'll tell you if I'm an atheist, if you tell me what it is I'm supposed not to believe in' ~ Noam Chomsky. — Wayfarer
Please prove that something as small as human reason would be able to meaningfully analyze something of such enormous scale as gods, should such a thing exist.
As example, please prove that squirrels are capable of understanding the Internet in even the most basic manner. — Jake
I would argue that human reasoning isn't "small". So far, humans have the greatest capacity to reason than any other animal. — Harry Hindu
Also, our ability to reason says nothing about whether or not gods exist. — Harry Hindu
Why would a god create beings incapable of understanding it and not being able to prove its existence like we prove the existence of so many other things? — Harry Hindu
Considering all this god crap is made-up human nonsense — Jeremiah
Why would a god create beings incapable of understanding it and not being able to prove its existence — Harry Hindu
But you were the first to compare us to animals - namely squirrels. So, I'm not suppose to take you seriously now?Apologies, but comparing ourselves to animals is a very common logical error, in regards to God questions. — Jake
The God idea is ONE proposal about the most fundamental nature of everything everywhere. There are others that don't require the existence of a God and work just fine without it.The God idea is a proposal about the most fundamental nature of everything everywhere. And...
We don't know what "everything everywhere" refers to in even the most basic manner such as size and shape etc.
When it comes to ideas the scale of gods, we're like the squirrel who can see the computer monitor and the blinking lights on the screen, but simply doesn't have the ability to grasp the level of abstraction involved in the Internet. — Jake
We don't understand why that is for reasons that we don't understand, but can infer are the same reasons for which squirrels don't understand those things. — BlueBanana
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