Posted: Oct 08, 2019 11:33 am
by Hermit
Cito di Pense wrote:
Hermit wrote:Our belief renders a mechanism that makes the occurrence of the event plausible irrelevant.

I just finished parsing this. Meanwhile, I split a gut.

That's because you skated past some important bits. I bolded them here:
Hermit wrote:
ginckgo wrote:I honestly don't care about the mechanism.

That's what believers in Noah's flood do: The flood happened even though we can't explain where all that water came from, and where it disappeared to. Our belief renders a mechanism that makes the occurrence of the event plausible irrelevant.