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hughpower wrote: I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second or perhaps less; I don’t know how many birds I saw. Were they a definite or an indefinite number? This problem involves the question of the existence of God. If God exists, the number is definite, because how many birds I saw is known to God. If God does not exist, the number is indefinite, because nobody was able to take count. In this case, I saw fewer than ten birds (let’s say) and more than one; but I did not see nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two birds. I saw a number between ten and one, but not nine, eight, seven, six, five, etc. That number, as a whole number, is inconceivable. Therefore, God exists.
Simple, it's 9 birds and one bird missing a leg, thus resulting in 9.87 birds.
hughpower wrote: I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second or perhaps less; I don’t know how many birds I saw. Were they a definite or an indefinite number? This problem involves the question of the existence of God. If God exists, the number is definite, because how many birds I saw is known to God. If God does not exist, the number is indefinite, because nobody was able to take count. In this case, I saw fewer than ten birds (let’s say) and more than one; but I did not see nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two birds. I saw a number between ten and one, but not nine, eight, seven, six, five, etc. That number, as a whole number, is inconceivable. Therefore, God exists.
I close my eyes and see darkness because my eyes are closed. I open them. I go do something else with my time.
Alright, the hell is going on in this thread? I've tried to follow and I'm just stupefied by everyone trying to disprove science or prove science as faith.
Someone call in the clean up crew from MIB and torch everything. I'll pull out the mind wipe ray.
jreilly89 wrote: Alright, the hell is going on in this thread? I've tried to follow and I'm just stupefied by everyone trying to disprove science or prove science as faith.
Someone call in the clean up crew from MIB and torch everything. I'll pull out the mind wipe ray.
Well its true mate.
From whom are unforgiven we bring the mercy of war.
jreilly89 wrote: Alright, the hell is going on in this thread? I've tried to follow and I'm just stupefied by everyone trying to disprove science or prove science as faith.
Someone call in the clean up crew from MIB and torch everything. I'll pull out the mind wipe ray.
Well its true mate.
science is not faith. faith is based on ignorance and claims to have all the answers. Science is based on empiricism and claims to have all of the questions. I consider you to be a child for making that erroneous assumption that science is a fiath driven initiative. Let me be clear with you. Flying planes into buildings, that's a faith based initiative. Preaching that use condoms don't stop the spread of venereal diseases is a faith based initiative. The christian-muslim tug of war that resulted in wholsalle butchery in the streets of jerusalem is a faith based initiative. Keep your petty faith away from my empiricism, and I won't point out how morally immature you are. Thanks.
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