Timeline for Is there anything a supernatural entity (e.g. God) could do to irrefutably prove its existence to humans? [closed]
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| Nov 21, 2020 at 3:32 | comment | added | Dan Bray | God is simply an all knowing all good consciousness that exists outside of space time and controls infinite forces, nothing more, nothing less. The supernatural is impossible, therefore God is not supernatural. The reason most religious people deny science, is due to their belief God is supernatural. It's also the reason scientists deny God. God is simply the zero point energy field. It's all knowing because it interacts with everything in the universe outside of space time. For it to even have intelligence requires imperfection, and hence why God cannot exist without the physical universe. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 5:03 | history | closed |
nwr J D curiousdannii Swami Vishwananda Conifold |
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 21:27 | answer | added | Ray | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 18:55 | answer | added | Chris Sunami | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Sep 23, 2020 at 15:21 | history | suggested | Donate to the Edhi Foundation | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 14:09 | answer | added | Chris Degnen | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 13:30 | answer | added | NoAnswer | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 11:27 | comment | added | Donate to the Edhi Foundation | William Lane Craig is very famous in Apologetics. I don't agree with him on same-sex marriage (I support gay marriage); and I don't know him very well. I'm just mentioning him for completeness. I've updated the question with sources that mirror my comments. | |
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 11:17 | comment | added | Donate to the Edhi Foundation | Analytic philosophy, in general, leans to atheism. You'll get different responses ranging from Hume, to people referencing Euclid and Spinoza (not saying this was Spinoza's claim), and referencing citation of Aquinas' response. Whether Kant was a theist is controversial. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 4:41 | answer | added | Kristian Berry | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 1:57 | answer | added | benrg | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 21:42 | comment | added | O S | It also depends on what you mean by God. God in the biblical sense is very different than from God in dharmic religions. The later is said to be experienced, rather than needing faith in believing and it wouldn't be considered an entity. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 20:59 | comment | added | user4894 | "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 20:56 | comment | added | Adam Sharpe | Where induction and inference to the best explanation are at work, any explanation (even the most highly confirmed scientific theories) of some data always leaves open the possibility of alternative explanations. The question is what is our prior credence in our explanation (how likely is it given other things we know) and how probable does it make the data. What I gather from the answers to your other question is that it seems many people on this site assign such a low prior to the supernatural that even incredible events such as miracles wouldn't boost their posterior enough to believe... | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 20:13 | history | edited | user48437 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:56 | comment | added | ptyx | Writing "Hi there! -- God" across the moon would be pretty convincing. It's visible to about everyone, and sufficiently out of reach of current technology that it's going to be hard to explain other than by divine intervention (or at least all powerful extraterrestrials - the next best thing). If you can (not opening that can of worms), you might want to violate a couple laws of physics too - maybe turn half the sun purple for a couple minutes. That said, humans being humans there is no such thing as irrefutable proof. Flat-earthers might claim it's just a moon cardboard cutout. | |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:37 | comment | added | J D | There's a fine line between metaphysically addressable questions, and those that are just speculative, opinion-based discussion. This site seeks to address questions of the first type in the Q&A format. Note you can revise your question at any time or go to meta for guidance doing so. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:35 | comment | added | J D | Welcome to SE Philosophy! Please be aware that questions are subject to editing and closure, and that reflects the site's policies on acceptable questions and NOT a personal attack. What to avoid in questions. Questions, including those that are closed, can be edited to bring them within guidelines. Keeping questions on-topic. Additional clarification at the meta site. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:35 | comment | added | J D | Incarnate myself and stay on earth interacting with people. The real mystery is if s/he wanted people to believe, why doesn't s/he manifest in an undeniable fashion. Religion is largely the exercise in building a political consensus (by hook or crook) to this answer and speaking on God's behalf. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:25 | comment | added | Conifold | God does not need to resort to miracles or other tricks. He is omnipotent, he can make humans, or anyone else, have no doubt about his existence, or anything else, just by willing it. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 19:01 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | According to our modern understanding, there is a possibility that by essence, the divine nature is unprovable from our side, and not publicly communicable if imparted from above. The Catholic theory is that God will eventually change our minds, not just as to content but the form, so that we have a unique axiomatic consciousness of God, and consciousness of others' consciousness as such. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 18:49 | history | asked | user48437 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |