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I know that you do not believe that there are fairies and leprechauns but because you are logically inconsistent you are able to believe in the possibility of a god and not the possibility of flying spaghetti monsters and so forth.
Frank, My point is if your answer to the question as to whether or not a God "Could" exist is "possible" and your answer to the question of "Could" God create anything is "Yes, then I would think that the rest of your answers would follow your logical consistency.
If you do not know of any evidence that supports a God but yet you believe one is possible, I would have thought with logic like that, you would also believe that a God could have created elves, leprechaun , flying spaghetti monsters and so forth and you just have not seen them as of yet.
That is why I would think you would say, you also do not "believe" there are no elves, leprechaun , flying spaghetti monsters and so forth.
Only to be logically consistent and nothing else, Not that you really do believe that elves, leprechaun , flying spaghetti monsters and so forth exist. It was only a joke poking fun at your logical inconsistency.
RL…I am NOT logically inconsistent…and I really wish you would stop asserting that I am. "Poke fun" at yourself if you are determined to poke fun.
As for me: I do not know if gods exist…I do not know if gods do not exist…I do not see enough unambiguous evidence upon which to base a meaningful guess. And I have never asserted that god exist…or that gods do not exist.
I know for a fact that I have never asserted that fairies, unicorns, or leprechauns exist. To the best of my knowledge I have never asserted that fairies, unicorns, and leprechauns DO NOT exist. If I ever have…please cite where I have and let’s discuss it in context.
Mostly, when atheists bring this nonsense up, I simply call attention to the fact that the discussion of gods existing or not existing has to do with the nature of existence…how this thing we call the universe (and everything else that may be hidden from us) came to be. The discussion of fairies, unicorns, leprechauns, flying spaghetti monsters, CPA’s working on a moon of Saturn…and other nonsense like that…is smoke being blown over the discussion by atheists who simply cannot abide someone saying, “I do not know.” For whatever reason, it seems to make atheists happy to suggest that people who claim not to know if gods are involved in REALITY are hypocrites…or logically inconsistent.
In any case, the “universe/multiverse/megaverse” may always have existed; may have come into being from nothing; may have come into being as the result of gods creating it…the gods having come into being from nothing; or any of a bunch of other possible scenarios.
I honestly do not know which it correct…and I am unwilling to rule out gods. Not sure why that bothers you…but I am unwilling to rule out gods nonetheless.
I understand there are people who insist gods exist…and that gods are absolutely necessary to explain existence. I disagree with them on the latter…and I question how they arrive at the former.
I understand there are people who insist there are no gods…and that the existence of gods is impossible. I question how they arrive at both the former and the latter.
If there is a god…the god could create whatever it wants to create. If it wants to create leprechauns, fairies, unicorns, flying spaghetti monsters, and such…it seems to me it can with no trouble at all.
Has it?
I DO NOT KNOW!
I cannot categorically say yes or no. Leprechauns, fairies, unicorns, flying spaghetti monsters may exist on 90% of all the planets in existence—but not exist on the other 10%. They do not seem to exist here on Earth, but if one of their qualities is that they are invisible and imperceptible to human senses, perhaps they do exist here. In any case, I CANNOT CATEGORICALLY RULE OUT THEIR EXISTENCE.
Now, RL…either point out the inconsistencies in my logic…or stop asserting that I am being logically inconsistent.
