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Message 137 of 137 (249003)
10-05-2005 3:20 AM
Reply to: Message 133 by Ben!
10-01-2005 2:28 PM


Ben
That you can imagine such is a statement only about our cognitive capacities, is it not?
Of course. The confusion here is occuring in the proposal of the existence of god as being realeven in the absence of evidence.
A perfect illusion simply need not provide any EVIDENCE which would allow you to argue for or against it.
This is true if you are living in a world where a perfect illusion of existence is not the case. Look at it this way. God has put together a world where god wants us to worship him and then makes it impossible to determine if god exists or not. Then along come certain individuals who say the reason you cannot evidence him is that you are being tested for your faith in god.
Now others say well this makes sense. God has set together a perfect ilusion of his/her non-existence and this is the explanation that is accepted in order to validate an otherwise incomprehesible conflict.
The error here lies in the people who brought forth the explanation of the faith as the reason for the lack of evidence because the logic falls apart since a perfect illusion of no god would by definition not allow for this assertion {faith as the reason for lack of evidence} since if we can figure out this to be the reason then the illusion was not perfect because we have learned what god was doing after all.
We might also ask how it came to certain individuals that they were able to ascertain that this faith is the answer to the question of non-evidence. If we state that they were special and had communication with god then again there is a conflict because these people did not learn of god through faith but by evidence. They then turn around and tell others that the reason for the lack of evidence is to test faith, a faith they are not required to adhere to?
If this is confusing please ask so that I may clarify in further posts since I am just off work and tired and finding it difficult to concentrate.
Later

But I realize now that these people were not in science; they didn’t understand it. They didn’t understand technology; they didn’t understand their time.

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