ADTJ

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[–] ADTJ 7 points 11 months ago

I Object to your terrible pun

[–] ADTJ 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No

You say it's not immeasurable but then all of the things you go on to describe are within the known universe, we can't possibly know or measure what's outside of it, because it is not known by definition.

I'm not asking for negative proofs in fact I haven't asked for proof of anything, I'm not sure where you got that from. I've simply stated that we can't draw statistics about things for which we have no evidence - which you now seem to be agreeing with.

I said you were making a different argument because you originally talked about existing religions which isn't what my comment or the original comment was about, I stand by that - nothing of what you had said was relevant to my response.

You can't possibly know that it's over 99% unlikely that the universe isn't a simulation or that it wasn't created by some entity since we don't yet have evidence pertaining to any hypothesis for how it was created. The statistic was pulled out of the air and has no scientific basis.

Do I think the universe is a giant Boltzmann brain or was created by an omniscient God? No, I don't, but it's still pointless to pretend it's something we can have any certainty about.

Not to be rude but this conversation isn't going anywhere, whether you don't understand or just don't agree, whatever I guess...

[–] ADTJ 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I understand your point and I feel like maybe I'm sounding a little argumentative. Sorry let me try to be more clear.

I understand your argument is that genetic evidence disproves existing religious beliefs that people have but that's a different argument to the point I was making.

Even if all global religions are incorrect, that doesn't mean that a god or gods couldn't hypothetically exist and my point is that there is no demonstrative proof of that either way.

If you check the original comment again, the question was about whether "a god(s) exist" and up until they mentioned the 99% that I was disputing, religion didn't even come into it.

You could disprove every creationist claim, every anti-evolution argument, and you'd be right, but you can't settle the question of "whether a supernatural being exists" because there simply isn't a way to do that within the natural realm that we know of.

It isn't just about God either. The simulation and Boltzmann brain hypotheses are similarly immeasurable

[–] ADTJ 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Could it be the update was to patch a safety recall issue and so without the update, the car isn't considered safe to drive?

[–] ADTJ 2 points 11 months ago

I don't know whether you have the same issue but I got stuck on the EULA page because there's a birth date selector behind it and they made both modal. The date picker is active but the EULA is on top so you can't do anything. Tried in both Firefox & Chrome.

The solution for me was to just go back to the store page while signed in, choose a conforming birthdate and then the EULA page worked normally.

Checkout page is just badly written

[–] ADTJ 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

We're not talking about creationism or any particular brand of theism

[–] ADTJ 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying I agree with op but their comment is very clear already

[–] ADTJ 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

It sounds like you're referring specifically to Christian theology but the comment was just about whether a god or gods exist in general

[–] ADTJ 0 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Agree with most of what you said except the "over 99% likely to be false".

Like you mentioned it's not possible to prove either way so it isn't meaningful to describe it as likely or unlikely. We have no way of knowing (at least currently) so the likelihood is simply undefined

[–] ADTJ 0 points 11 months ago

Do you have guns growing out of your hands?

(Even in asking sarcastically I can visualise it being a wet dream for many USians)

[–] ADTJ 3 points 11 months ago

The true meaning of life

[–] ADTJ 4 points 11 months ago

Guessing that last one was in 2014

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