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In Which Poly's Religious Contingent Gives Lori a Big Fat :rolleyes:
In Which Poly's Religious Contingent Gives Lori a Big Fat :rolleyes:
Five years ago I posted a beat poem by Tim Minchin that was not well received. I suspect this will go over even more poorly. Nevertheless, I think this is pretty hilarious and a nearly perfect encapsulation of why miracles are crap evidence for divine beings.
Can you summarize for efficiency and clarity? I'm not big on evidence as a reason to believe, but just want to know what you are proposing.
It's really in the delivery. But here's the essence of it for me:
The story of Sam's has but a single explanation:
A surgical God who digs on magic operations
No, it couldn't be mistaken attribution of causation
Born of a coincidental temporal correlation
Exacerbated by a general lack of education
Vis-a-vis physics in Sam's parish congregation
No it couldn't be that all these pious people are liars
It couldn't be an artifact of confirmation bias
A product of groupthink,
A mass delusion,
An Emperor's New Clothes-style fear of exclusion
No, it's more likely to be an all-powerful magician
Than the misdiagnosis of the initial condition,
Or one of many cases of spontaneous remission,
Or a record-keeping glitch by the local physician
No, the only explanation for Sam's mum's seeing:
They prayed to an all-knowing superbeing,
To the omnipresent master of the universe,
And he quite liked the sound of their muttered verse.
It's really in the delivery. But here's the essence of it for me:
The story of Sam's has but a single explanation:
A surgical God who digs on magic operations
No, it couldn't be mistaken attribution of causation
Born of a coincidental temporal correlation
Exacerbated by a general lack of education
Vis-a-vis physics in Sam's parish congregation
No it couldn't be that all these pious people are liars
It couldn't be an artifact of confirmation bias
A product of groupthink,
A mass delusion,
An Emperor's New Clothes-style fear of exclusion
No, it's more likely to be an all-powerful magician
Than the misdiagnosis of the initial condition,
Or one of many cases of spontaneous remission,
Or a record-keeping glitch by the local physician
No, the only explanation for Sam's mum's seeing:
They prayed to an all-knowing superbeing,
To the omnipresent master of the universe,
And he quite liked the sound of their muttered verse.
Ah... so this guy is like the silliest of the New Atheists in the depth of his "argument" against religion.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
"God likes people to pray" seems like a decent explanation to me.
He addresses that, too. We could definitely conclude that God likes people to pray for miracles that are easily explainable without resorting to the supernatural. Anything else, not so much.
Ah... so this guy is like the silliest of the New Atheists in the depth of his "argument" against religion.
It's not an argument against religion; it's an argument against using supposed miracles as evidence for any particular god. And in that sense, it works very well. There are exceedingly plausible mundane explanations for basically every well documented miracle, but oftentimes they require us to resist our pathological desire to find patterns.
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