Ennaybur said:
I believe in the FSM. prove to me it doesn't exist and then i'll stop believing.
I can prove it doesn't exist because I can trace the source of it as a myth. Theism is not traceable to a definite point as the FSM is. In fact, theism's traceable line stops far after the migration from Africa. Thus many different cultures came to a similar conclusion, that theism is valid, without any interaction with each other,
As you say, the example of the FSM actually shows that things can be made up as easily as they are real. But conversely, I could go into a courtroom and say that I am not guilty of murder because the video camera which allegedly caught me killing someone is a creation of little green men, who want to frame me. So why wouldn't this fly?
Obviously this defense is insane because we are capable of calculating probabily and logic. It is not an issue of evidence to the contrary, it's an issue of reasonable doubt. People should be claiming why it is probable that God does not exist, in my opinion.
The logic that theism is wrong - because a similar scenario can be fabricated (although
obviously falsely) - is very bad. Especially since the FSM has no rational place. The FSM attempt at being inherently ridiculous excludes its existence. It sounds obvious, but really the only way that we could prepose that there was a God was if its place wasn't ridiculous. To create a viable FSM analogy, one would have to get near the definition of God itself. Otherwise we wouldn't be having the debate, because God would obviously be ridiculous,
Lastly, even if my second point (that it being ridiculous excludes it as a logical analogy) was false: Just because y (FSM) can be created in an
allegedly similar way to x (God) does not mean that, since y = man-made, x= man-made.
For tl;dr: The FSM analogy actually shows a common logical fallacy that, simply because something else as allegedly stupid can be made up, theism is wrong.
