Quote from OPTIONAL777:
No, if you pay attention you would understand that I did not say God cannot be measured by any means. God is beyond physical instrumentation...
...but so is the entire mental realm, so is the entirety of the universe, etc.
An atheist is denying the ontological argument, the concept of entirety, the concept of greatest, etc.
Quote from hermit:
So what are the means that he can be measured, if at all?
My point being that your concept of God is a purely theoretical exercise on a personal level and is not a reflection on someone else if he denies it without any validation. They can believe in the 'nothingness' concept prevalent in eastern scriptures of Buddhism or Hinduism and still have a valid path to further enquiry without a borrowed concept of someone else's personal god form.
Quote from OPTIONAL777:
By what means can you measure the love of a mother for a child?
Their actions?
LOL!!!
Since the motive for actions is unknowable by the actions alone...
...well, try harder to come up with something that is not so easy to refute.
Quote from hermit:
When you say 'love' between mother and child, there is the thing called love which is a human emotion/state of mind/behavioral/genetic etc which I am not denying exists.
Now in cae of god, what exactly am I denying here? Thats all I want to know.
Quote from OPTIONAL777:
So you believe the love between a mother and child is simply a human emotion/state of mind/behavioral/genetic etc.
Sounds like you have a great childhood...
This still being Valentine's Day on the West Coast...does your boyfriend/girlfriend/mother/father know you views on love?
LOL!!!
In any case, the love that you say exists cannot be measured by scientific instrumentation...
Quote from hermit:
You just want to make this into a semantics fest. I am asking what exactly is an atheist denying and you introduce a double bind like this was a political debate.