woodbine wrote: ↑February 1st, 2020, 8:21 pm
What I am saying is that no possible evidence is useful in distinguishing between Gods existence or non existence, therefore any belief is unjustified.
Thinking that P is unfalsifiable doesn't imply that you think that no evidence can count as evidence
for P. That would be uncomfirmable un unverifiable rather than unfalsifiable. But we could say that one thinks that P is both unfalsifiable and unverifiable.
If one thinks that, one still needs an additional step of "Just in case P is both unfalsifiable and unverifiable, then there can be no justification for believing that P." That's not an automatic step. You don't have to feel that belief requires either the falsifiability or verifiability of P to be justified.
Someone finding an objection to a "cause of the universe" is not inconsistent with a first cause God existing. Gods actions could be incoherent to mortals?
The person would also think that incoherent things can't obtain, period. As I think for example.--it's not a matter simply of me not being able to make sense of something. It's a matter of what's proposed being nonsensical period.
I can't fathom how to post post/format answers yet so please bear with me.
First, hit the reply button on the post. That's the double quotation-mark button that looks kind of like this (it's to the left of our avatars):
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