Banned_Magnus wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
Banned_Magnus wrote:
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists
The illusion of order does not indicate the existence of a deity.
You have the right to believe whatever you want. But, if someone claims to believe differently, we have no right to alter their beliefs just to make our beliefs more consistent with their own.
But that "belief" is based off a logical fallacy that because there is some form of order that we perceive that there must be a deity. The perceived order could simply just be one instance in billions of other instances where the physics didn't exist correctly but we haven't been able to perceive it yet. That's also assuming that there is order to our own existence which is still something in question, at the moment. Then on top of all that (billions of probabilities and the assumption that our reality is, in fact, orderly) there's the assumption that there's a deity that intelligently interacts from above our reality at least at the beginning of it. The last assumption is based off of no perceived evidence in our reality but rather from mythology (which also consists of many other ideas and creatures that do not exist). So that whole line of thinking is just critically flawed. Could there be a deity? I'd wait for a Pegasus, first. But, in all likelihood, there isn't.
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15 Dec 2010, 2:47 pm
