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Mon 2008-08-18 16:27 |
I'm raising the possibility that you and I are the innumerate or tone-deaf or colour-blind ones, and that the thing which other people can see and we can't might be real, rather than a delusion on their part.
But I don't think an innumerate person would be able to articulate why mathematics as we understand it doesn't work (because it does!) or a tone-deaf person why all notes are actually the same (because they're not!), or a colour-blind person that there's no physical difference between red and green paint (because there is!)
However, I have never seen an attempt to prove God's existence where the 'evidence' offered can't be attributed to a cause other than God with more probability than it can be attributed to God. Richard Dawkins is rather good at articulating specific examples of how this can be done. I contend there's a good reason why there isn't a Richard Dawkins of colour-blind people writing books called The Colour Delusion!
In response to your last point, this is what I was getting at in the last paragraph of my previous comment, the one in brackets. What I said only applies to Type 2s (of course you get other sorts of atheist), and to really quite intelligent ones. And there probably *are* super-intelligent Type 2s who turn into Type 1s - if you say your friend is one I believe you - I just think they're rare. |
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