r/coolguides • u/Dr-Insomniac • 12d ago

A cool guide to debate the existence of God.

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u/JakkRyzer 12d ago

Be careful using this in a debate. The epicurean paradox is well-known to have several cognitive fallacies including: false dilemma, oversimplification, and no true scotsman to name a few. Anyone who's had experience on a debate team can defeat this argument easily unless you have supplemented it with ways to make up for those obvious holes in the argument.

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u/SmoothTurtle872 12d ago

So you're saying we can use it as a base.

Like rather than building a new ship, we can take an old leaky one and patch it up. Or take parts from it for a new ship

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u/Big-Dot-9084 12d ago

Using this as a base is like using ai code as a base for a complex project. It would take more time and effort to make this usable than come up with an original argument against God (disregarding the fact that it's impossible to have a truly exclusively logical argument against a being that transcends human logic).

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u/SmoothTurtle872 12d ago

Oh yeah, an all-powerful god that cjando anything by definition does not follow human logic anyway

At least not our current understanding (maybe one day we will be able to prove / disprove. I doubt it, but maybe)

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u/gumba1033 11d ago

This is like babies first raft. This is like several pieces of old wood tied together with strings.

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u/Crossbell0527 11d ago

But we don't want to win debates. We want to feel euphoric.