True and False

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... y fruits do start appearing out of nowhere of their own accord, then we?ll know that it?s wrong; until then, we can just say that it doesn?t appear to be false. Only when our statement "stops working" do we know it will not work forever; the only way we can say something definite and concrete about a statement is to invalidate it. Thus spake Popper.

God, on the other hand, seems to have a lot more going for him: just look around. The Bible said he made it all, doesn?t it? The fact that "it all" exists automatically implies that the maker exists, so God exists, QED. How can 50% of our sample not notice that they exist, as does all the stuff around them? Are they blind? Or maybe just distracted? It was St. Thomas Aquinas that first thought up this proof for the existence of God, and many more besides. He had a point, didn?t he? How can we disprove God? We can scrabble around in the dirt and come up with evidence suggesting that the earth is much older than the Bible says it is, thus we can defenestrate the sacred book. No problem: Tom side-stepped that by defining God as "the most perfect being". This can cause problems of its own, but we can ignore them for the moment: Jesuits are a clever bunch, and like any ...

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