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Originally Posted by marmalade  Unless I observed a dwarf or God in my car engine, I wouldn't randomly advance this as a hypothesis. If I did observe something that fit the description of a dwarf or of a specific god, then I would advance several hypotheses and explore the matter further. It might turn out that there is a dwarf in my engine, but he is only there because he was trying to fix my engine. It would certainly be rude of me not to believe in him when he was trying to help me out. |
So if you advance the hypothesis of God or a dwarf in your engine, you will stop advancing any other hypotheses any more, because you cannot verify them.
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Originally Posted by El_Mariachi64 Which postings here have referred to atheism as a religion? |
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Originally Posted by El_Mariachi64 Could you rationally explain why the absence of God is a necessary premise for rationality? |
If God exists and influences this world, all your prooves become invalid, because any miricle becomes possible.
In fact you have to accept some limitations to be rational in advance before you begin thinking rationally.
1)the world around you is objective (exists independently of your consciousness).
2) there is no supernatural things influencing the object you want to investigate
3)miricles are impossible
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etc.
If you dont accept all these premises, you cannot be sure that for example microscope you look through at bacteria is a microscope in fact. It can be absolutely anything in a mysterious way. So all the result of your investigation becomes invalid too. You can garantee absolutely nothing.
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Originally Posted by El_Mariachi64 (I was talking to God the other day, and he said watching us humans makes him have severe doubts about rationality all together.  ) |
If you have accepted the hypothesis of God, then you cannot garantee that it was God you talked to, because if God exists
any miricle is possible.