[From “20 Arguments For God’s Existence” ]
17. The Argument from Aesthetic Experience
There is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
You either see this one or you don't.
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I read some of the other arguments. The whole thing is full of non-sequiturs. Basically the middle or end of every argument which I read was “there’s no way this could be true without a creator” (argument from incredulity, sometimes combined with God of the Gaps) and also this doesn’t follow from whatever came before. One of the arguments implies that God is entropy, because he clearly doesn’t understand physics. I have no reason to believe the ones I didn’t read are any better, the whole thing is too unoriginal and boring to bother with.
Also, his capstone argument is Pascal’s Wager. Really.
Oh, I do, lady, I have a religion, his name is Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach. And at least my God isn't an invented one. -Dr. Jack Kevorkian, as portrayed in You Don’t Know Jack
@Percy_Jelley #113134
Well, obviously, He gave up His identity when He ascended to Heaven again, careful to fake His death more carefully after the mess He made back in 0030s.
@Zinnia :
The whole thing is full of non-sequiturs. Basically the middle or end of every argument which I read was “there’s no way this could be true without a creator” (argument from incredulity, sometimes combined with God of the Gaps)
With appeals to beauty in regards to great works of art/divine inspiration of non-religious works like the one quoted here, there is also a subtext of envy: “I could not created something this beautiful, so obviously, it can’t be that these people are genuinely more talented, creative and/or dedicated to their craft than I, no, the true author must actually be some superhuman entity.”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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