On 5/13/2018 8:50 AM, John Collier wrote:
I am afraid I do not find these arguments coherent with anything I was taught to be God.
I recall a survey some years ago in which the interviewers asked people two questions: (1) Do you believe in God? (2) How would you describe God? What they found: No two people described God in the same way. The descriptions by believers and non-believers showed the same amount of variation. And from the way God was described, they couldn't reliably distinguish believers from non-believers. This was not a statistically reliable survey. And very few of the people they surveyed had studied any philosophical or theological arguments. But from my own experience, I find it convincing. And from hearing or reading what people who have studied philosophy or theology say, I suspect that the results would have been the same, independently of how much they had thought, read, or studied. Happy Sunday, Sabbath, Meditation Day, or Picnic Day to all, John
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