re: #260 Thanos

Well I can see how you might think the comparison is not apt, but most would call it very apt.

Why would you think this? I have now stated twice that I agree with him!!

You also gloss over the part where he states that most people who have faith understand this and don’t care, understanding that belief is personal.

I don’t gloss over it. I said in my first comment that there is one explicit message, i.e. faith should be personal, which enjoys the support of most religious and atheist people, and most lizards. But there is a second clearly implicated message, namely a critique of religion, and that is not wrong, but it is contentious. I was drawing attention to this. That is not the same as glossing over the overt message.

I happen to agree with him,

Yes! You and me both!

and suspect that only those who have weak faith attempt to make the argument for god’s existence through Science or Logic. (e.g. the discovery institute folks and their shills.)
At some far flung point in the future perhaps we will know enough to prove it one way or another, but we certainly do not know enough now.

But he does say that same things are known already. There is no Amazonian river in the box, and there are no inherently illogical beings.

I hope I did the quotes right!