Common question: “Well, but what if God was real and actually appeared to you in flame and glory, wouldn’t it be silly to not be convinced in that case?”
My answer: “I don’t know, do you think my thought patterns are likely to be deployed in such an environment?”
That’s another way to look at it. The usual implicit assumptions break down on the margins. Though, given the odds of this happening (once in a bush, at best, and the flame was not all that glorious), I would bet on hallucinations as a much likelier explanation. Happens to people quite often.
Common question: “Well, but what if God was real and actually appeared to you in flame and glory, wouldn’t it be silly to not be convinced in that case?”
My answer: “I don’t know, do you think my thought patterns are likely to be deployed in such an environment?”
That’s another way to look at it. The usual implicit assumptions break down on the margins. Though, given the odds of this happening (once in a bush, at best, and the flame was not all that glorious), I would bet on hallucinations as a much likelier explanation. Happens to people quite often.
How about historical precedent? Gods did arrive on Spanish ships to South America.