Is God Desirable? Part 3 of 3 (PostScript)
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2013-09-12

Audio only, finishing off Part 2 (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP8Mxf8PjEg&noredirect=1 ).  With picture of this 'taxing' issue of taxonomizing God, from a desirability criterion.  The ancients used to argue this way:  pick a topic universally accepted as desirable as if true, then prove whether it's true or not.  That's what I propose here, except that we have a welter of empirical data from millions of people over thousands of years, about what constitutes 'desirability' in 'god'.  What this 'god' desires, and whether and why we desire 'him'.  From this welter of facts about how people conceive the character and attractiveness of 'god', you can deduce much.

So you can indeed test for God's Existence, by first discovering God's Desirability or His Own Desires, HYPOTHETICALLY.  Same analysis process as theoretical math, but since the topic is God, the process is instead usually classified as philosophical.

So you first determine how God 'should' be, then look out at nature and see if those characteristics are reflected.  If God really exists, there should be harmony between the characteristics and the natural world.  To the extent disharmony, then either what you think you see is incorrect, or the characteristics are incorrect, so then you can revise either end of the 'hypothesis'.

Again, this is done in math all the time, which is the only science that can hypothesize based on the unseen.  Philosophy is supposed to work like math, but often doesn't.  So here the objective is to be more scientific, just as you'd want to be more thorough when balancing your checkbook.  You won't come up with conclusive answers, but you will come up with valid avenues of inquiry.  For conclusivity, you have to get direct contact from God.  Just as, to actually conclusively know a city exists, you have to GO there.  Same three pronged testing is required for conclusivity, in anything:  DIRECT CONTACT, REASON, SUPPORTING FACTS.