I was with you up until the “similarly”. After that you start privileging the hypothesis—you should expect a god to make itself obvious during a human lifetime, by any description of a god ever proposed in history.
I’m not sure I see how I”m privileging the hypothesis. Not saying that I’m not, but if you can explain how I’d appreciate it.
Aside from that, I think you are using “god” to mean any of the gods discussed by any popular religion. By this definition, I’d probably agree with you.
I was using the word “god” in a much more general sense… not sure I can define it though, probably something similar to: any “being” that is omnipotent and omniscient, or maybe: any “being” that created reality as we know it. In either definition, there is not really a reason to expect got to make itself obvious to us on any timescale that we consider reasonable. There is no reason to believe that we are special enough that we’d get that kind of treatment.
There is no reason to propose such a being—privileging the hypothesis is when you consider a hypothesis before any evidence has forced you to raise that hypothesis to the level of consideration.
Unless you have a mountain of evidence (and I’m guessing it’ll have to be cosmological to support a god that hasn’t visibly intervened in the world) already driving you to argue that there might be a god, don’t bother proposing the possibility.
I was with you up until the “similarly”. After that you start privileging the hypothesis—you should expect a god to make itself obvious during a human lifetime, by any description of a god ever proposed in history.
I’m not sure I see how I”m privileging the hypothesis. Not saying that I’m not, but if you can explain how I’d appreciate it.
Aside from that, I think you are using “god” to mean any of the gods discussed by any popular religion. By this definition, I’d probably agree with you.
I was using the word “god” in a much more general sense… not sure I can define it though, probably something similar to: any “being” that is omnipotent and omniscient, or maybe: any “being” that created reality as we know it. In either definition, there is not really a reason to expect got to make itself obvious to us on any timescale that we consider reasonable. There is no reason to believe that we are special enough that we’d get that kind of treatment.
There is no reason to propose such a being—privileging the hypothesis is when you consider a hypothesis before any evidence has forced you to raise that hypothesis to the level of consideration.
Unless you have a mountain of evidence (and I’m guessing it’ll have to be cosmological to support a god that hasn’t visibly intervened in the world) already driving you to argue that there might be a god, don’t bother proposing the possibility.
Ah, I see what you are saying. Thanks for the explanation. And you are indeed correct.