Verifiability (Short blog)

Personal Verifiability

One key argument that theists put forward for God is the argument that God is personally verifiable, and therefore knowable. However, this is a misconception of understanding. The case is not whether one verifies God's existence as definite, but as to whether one CAN verify God's existence for definite. To verify another existence would require insurmountable proof of another being to exist, and for that, one that is within oneself, and is able to differentiate itself from the idea of said existence. The difference in having absolute belief for something to be certain, and having absolute knowledge for that certainty is vast. While I believe for absolute certainty that other people exist, there is no way to personally justify this assumption. And thus, just as it is truly impossible to verify anyone's existence apart from ones own, it is also impossible to verify the existence of a deity. This is furthermore reinforced by the fact that a deity has shown no definite effect on our perceptions, while the existence of others has.

Acts of God

In life, there may be things that seem unprovable, and impossible within the parameters of logic, and therefore must be an 'act of God'. This is one argument for a transcendent deity that may often present itself. Jumping to such a conclusion, however, is highly presumptious. At our current stage, we are still discovering new explanations as to the workings of the universe, and hence the parameters of logic our perception thrusts upon us. Atoms, quantum mechanics and otherwise are still in the process of understanding, and as such, the assumption of an 'Act of God' or the 'work of God' is impossible to make at this current stage. To be certain of a non-personal deity's existence, one must witness the rejection of logic only once all logic has been learnt, only one has absolute comprehension. As such, the only justification for resorting to the theory of an 'Act of God' would be for when one has absolute understanding of our plane of existence. In addition to this, considering that it is personally impossible to truly justify an all-knowing state due to the constant possibility of a further understanding to be learnt, it is therefore incorrect to assume the existence of a transcendent God at all.