And thereby loses all sense of the play being a collaborative effort of the director, the actors, the supporting crew, all in service of a compelling storyline.
What is really left of the play, when one does that? What can we say about it, then?
Plus to conflate the commensurable with the incommensurable is to commit a major category error. Subsequent thinking according to its terms will be distorted, a falling away from the truth of reality....
Thank you, cornelis, for your perceptive suggestion of this "experiment." It so well captures the "nit" of the problem we're picking over here....
If God is our explanation of the unknown then God is unknown. If He were known then that which He knows would be known by those who know Him.
For the atheist God is unknown. Only to the atheist is God the explanation of the unknown since, to the atheist, He is unknown.
For an atheist God diminishes as knowledge increases. For a believer God increases as knowledge increases.