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Re: attn: atheists - God vs. Aliens as unproven concepts [Re: jayfoxpox]
    #20866117 - 11/20/14 03:35 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

I see what you're getting at. Personally, I don't think God is any more far fetched than ETs, or at least an ET encounter. If someone told you they had made contact with ETs, you'd find it just as dubious as someone who said they made contact with hyperdimensional beings or God or spirits or whatever. All of these things really end up in the same category of "paranormal." I think they are all equally likely and probable.


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Re: attn: atheists - God vs. Aliens as unproven concepts [Re: ikku]
    #20867027 - 11/20/14 06:21 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

I would be skeptical at first,and would think they were just hallucinating or schizophrenics, but if I find them credible for,example could imagine that if NASA and other space stations reported the discovery of a alien bacteria on mars , I'd probably believe it.

On the other hand, a self-contradictory concept of God that has traits that creates contradictions like an omnibenevolent being who creates a place for eternal punishment and suffering or a being that can do anything. Additionally, he is by most people's definition, unpercievable,which takes away any chance to have scientific evidence  and would probably fall extremely low in the spectrum of plausibility. Just adding extra traits would add extra baggage making the concept even more unlikely based on composition.


I guess I just see God as a much more bold claim than you do.

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Re: attn: atheists - God vs. Aliens as unproven concepts [Re: jayfoxpox]
    #20867676 - 11/20/14 08:12 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

I see. The common, and I would say pagan, interpretation of God as a sky daddy with the likeness of Zeus is indeed quite ludicrous. Check out the thread about defining God, there are a lot of good posts in there (except for Confucian because he destroys a straw man interpretation of God and uses it to conclude that all believers are foolish, which is exactly the type of anti theist that this thread was targeted at).


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