Thread: The God Delusion By Richard Dawkins
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Old 02-15-2007, 07:13 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Jefferson View Post
So Richard Dawkings is "almost certainly" God?

To know that there is no God, one would have to be omniscient - which would mean that person is God, and prove that there is, in fact, a God.
It is true that the only way of knowing for CERTAIN that there is no God is to be omniscient. But Richard Dawkings did not claim to know for certain. He said that there is "almost certainly" no God. To say that requires nothing more than a human mind.

To use a simple example, you'd have to be omniscient to know that dragons do not exist. However, using simple reasoning, we can show that it is almost certain that dragons don't exist. Almost certain is as close as it gets when trying to prove nonexistence, and it should be plenty close for most people.
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