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To: CarolinaGuitarman
No, it's a fact. Right now there is no way to know if a God exists.

What percentage of the total available knowledge do you claim to possess? You are claiming absolute certainty of the truth of the proposition that there is not enough knowledge to be able to determine whether or not there is a God. In order to make this claim with certainty you would have had to search throughout the entire universe, because of the possibility that knowledge of God might exist somewhere you haven't looked yet. You cannot possibly search everywhere since you are a finite being. Therefore, unless you are omniscient (or God Himself) you cannot be certain that that there isn't knowledge somewhere that you haven't looked yet. Therefore you cannot be certain that there is no way to know if God exists.

Cordially,

603 posted on 12/20/2005 11:31:09 AM PST by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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To: Diamond
"You are claiming absolute certainty of the truth of the proposition that there is not enough knowledge to be able to determine whether or not there is a God."

I am saying we cannot do so at the present time.

"In order to make this claim with certainty you would have had to search throughout the entire universe, because of the possibility that knowledge of God might exist somewhere you haven't looked yet."

No. This does not follow. I am talking about the limitations of human knowledge, right now. On Earth. In the future the question may be answerable. That day is not this day.

"Therefore, unless you are omniscient (or God Himself) you cannot be certain that that there isn't knowledge somewhere that you haven't looked yet."

Irrelevant, I am talking about human limitations at the present time.

"Therefore you cannot be certain that there is no way to know if God exists."

I can be sure that humans do not right now possess the ability to test for the existence of a deity. Do you know of any way to do so, scientifically?
619 posted on 12/20/2005 11:36:46 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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