The God Test

topic posted Thu, November 10, 2005 - 2:08 PM by  offlineVoodooChild
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Also known as battleground God. This ought to ruffle some feathers. The link to start the test is at the bottom of this page. There are other fun games on this site as well.

www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm
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VoodooChild
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  • Re: The God Test

    Thu, May 25, 2006 - 10:33 PM
    That was fun, though I disagreed with every time it claimed I had to bite a bullet (once) or took a direct hit (twice). On the bite the bullet one, they were assuming the "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" fallacy. Surprising they made that mistake. And I said that if if there was a God it could do anything, but it could not make a square circle. They interpreted that as a contradiction, but it's not. States of affairs the description of which are self-contractory are not things to do. Being self-contradictory, they are null sets. If they're logically impossible to do, they're literally nothing (nothing real or possible), and hence nothing is being referred to for a hypothetical God to do. In other words, if God existed, such a being should be able to do any THING, but self-contradictory definitions don't refer to anything.

    They also said I was contradicting myself when I said that is is justifiable to believe in something based on a firm inner conviction, and yet I said that it was not justifiable that that rapist guy to claim he was raping by God's will. I said that it's justifiable to believe in something based on an inner conviction. I didn't say that it's ALWAYS justifiable to do that. Some beliefs are more reasonable than others. They were assuming that rationality is only based on empirical evidence, which is false.

    So I actually got through unscathed, but they were the ones being irrational. Ha!

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