What's on my mind?

11.26.2009

It's amazing to me...

...just how many John Loftus posts boil down to "God isn't how I would expect him to be, therefore, he must not exist" (Most recently, here and here).

4 comments:

Christopher Heard 10:02  

Half or more of Richard Dawkins's arguments in The God Delusion follow the same pattern. The flip side, of course, are theological "proofs" that purport to show that God's alleged character requires that God exists.

Tim Ricchuiti 10:08  

That's a good point. I hadn't thought of the flip side, but there are certainly apologists out there who see only the God they can conceive of seeing. Similar, too, I suppose, to historical Jesus scholars who peer into history and see mainly themselves.

Scott Grace 17:09  

Tim, when I ask Google a question it always gives me a direct answer. When I ask God a question I never get a direct answer. Therefore, I propose that Google is now the new creator of the universe.

Tim Ricchuiti 07:47  

Well-deduced, Scott.