Ignostic Morgan

With ignosticism, we ignostics declare that God is a mystery surrounded by other mysteries, parading as an explanation.But the magic of God did it is a pseudo-explanation. It " hides our ignorance behind a theological fig leaf "and to further quote the atheologian Keith Parsons:"Occult power wielded by a transcendent being in an inscrutable way for unfathomable reasons seems to be no sort of a real explanation." God is the mere tautology that God wills what He wills, unimformative whatsoever.God serves the same function as gremlilns do for what ails a car! Now granting significance to the term, Occam's razor puts it aside for naturalistic explanations period.We no more need God than we do Thor for explaning weather conditions.God would require ad hoc explanations and adds nothing to what we find.Contrary to Richard Swinburne and Alister McGrath , God as a personal explanation adds no real explanation to anything:banghead: ,but is the circular argument that God had us in mind when what happens is that causalism explains .Science explains; theology obscures.:huh:

Gracchus

What the hell is an "ignostic"?

Vicious Love

Someone with knowledge of fire, I guess. Maybe some sorta fire worship thing. Sounds cool, but it's poor form to mix Latin with Greek.

Mizled

Cohesion in your thoughts and sentences, can ya dig it?

RAFH

I was figuring it was knowledge of ignorance. But what do I know?

Hydra009

Ignosticism

Basically, it's the position that the term, God, is meaningless - since it ranges from a guy in the sky to a vague sort of energy to the universe itself. An ignostic requires a more concrete definition of what is being discussed before getting into arguing existence/non-existence.

Hydra009

I understood what he was saying pretty decently.

The annotated form:

1) "God did it" is a meaningless assertion since God can potentially explain anything and nothing can falsify the claim, it explains nothing and fails Occam's Razor.
2) God is offered as a God of the Gaps explanation - whatever we don't understand, God did. This is not an actual answer to the unknown, it merely dresses up our ignorance.
3) The God hypothesis explains nothing. (following from 1 and 2)

wnope

Is this position related to non-cogntivism, the idea that discussing "god" is a fruitless topic itself since the word has no meaning due to a lack of properties(see George Smith)?

RAFH

This is going to break Boro Nut's heart, to think people consider the Borogroves being all mimsy is non-sensical. Break his heart I tell you.

I suggest folks in Middlesbrough stay inside with the shades drawn, the lights out and the doors locked and bolted. BN just might show them what real mimsy is all about. Wouldn't hurt to saute some garlic.

RAFH

I think that's sort of the point of Infidels.