Since Eliezer doesn’t believe God exists, what are you talking about when you’re talking about “Eliezer’s model of God”? Do you perhaps means how Eliezer models other people modeling their own concept of God?
On the whole you seem to me to be confused about what you’re attempting to do. Or perhaps I’m the one confused: Is your claim that one can’t disprove any religion, or that one can’t disprove all religions?
Either way, I’m reasonably certain that you have Eliezer’s “model” wrong. Eliezer doesn’t have a model of God, because he doesn’t believe in God, and Eliezer also knows other people have more than one models of what they label “god”.
good point, let me go back and refine, the model that I perceive Eliezer talking about. I think you are the one confused but only because i was confusing. my original point was that spending time working on proving or disproving a religion is a waste of time because of what I pointed out above, either we have a regular and consistent universe to discover or we are having the wool pulled over our eyes at every turn and which ever way it is, it’s meaningless to worry about it until we find any sort of solid evidence in either direction. I wasn’t even referring to a particular religion, just the general religious concept of an all powerful deity or deities of any sort. I was just trying to point out the irrationality of going about disproving something that (if we take a religious source at its word) can exists beyond the bonds of logic. Thanks for the reply and the criticism though, if you haven’t caught on, I’m new to here and looking for the help to improve.
Since Eliezer doesn’t believe God exists, what are you talking about when you’re talking about “Eliezer’s model of God”? Do you perhaps means how Eliezer models other people modeling their own concept of God?
On the whole you seem to me to be confused about what you’re attempting to do. Or perhaps I’m the one confused: Is your claim that one can’t disprove any religion, or that one can’t disprove all religions?
Either way, I’m reasonably certain that you have Eliezer’s “model” wrong. Eliezer doesn’t have a model of God, because he doesn’t believe in God, and Eliezer also knows other people have more than one models of what they label “god”.
good point, let me go back and refine, the model that I perceive Eliezer talking about. I think you are the one confused but only because i was confusing. my original point was that spending time working on proving or disproving a religion is a waste of time because of what I pointed out above, either we have a regular and consistent universe to discover or we are having the wool pulled over our eyes at every turn and which ever way it is, it’s meaningless to worry about it until we find any sort of solid evidence in either direction. I wasn’t even referring to a particular religion, just the general religious concept of an all powerful deity or deities of any sort. I was just trying to point out the irrationality of going about disproving something that (if we take a religious source at its word) can exists beyond the bonds of logic. Thanks for the reply and the criticism though, if you haven’t caught on, I’m new to here and looking for the help to improve.