[MD] Confirming the existence of God?

[Ant McWatt]

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Mark
Smith stated to Mary on January 17th (in the context of faith regarding God
and science respectively): 

 

My argument is this:  If I read in a book that God exists, I can accept
that

on faith.  If I read in a book that plate tectonics created the continents
as

they are, I can accept that on faith.  I do not need to personally confirm

either.  However, the great thing about a belief in God is that it can be

confirmed since it is a feeling.

 

 

Ant
McWatt asks:

 

Mark,

 

My
apologies if this question has already been asked recently but rather than
confirming the existence of God, how do you know this “feeling” doesn’t instead
indicate that you’ve gone insane, been affected by drugs (legal or otherwise),
been hypnotized through social conditioning, suffered a stroke, been subject to
carbon monoxide poisoning or even some combination of these?




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