God's existence is not an 'empirical hypothesis' (it cannot be empirically proven).
Design in the world = God exists - doesn't work as it only shows there is design, and doesn't give actual evidence of God's existence.
Metaphysical utterances cannot be true or false [Ayer's verification principle].
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Concepts of atheism and agnosticism are equally meaningless.
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Statements within primitive religions could be meaningful, i.e. it is thundering = Jehovah is angry.
Sophisticated religions suggest there is a being outside the world with 'super-empirical attributes' - non-sensical.
Existence of noun does not equal its reality.
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Theists describe God as 'ineffable', 'mysterious'.
Religious believers = faith and reason - if it is not intelligible to reason it's meaningless.
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Intuition does not reveal any facts [Donovan/religious experience].
Mystic is unable to express what he knows or say how it could be tested [psychologists].
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Theists suggest it is logically possible for men to be immediately acquainted with God much like we are immediately acquainted with a sense-content [Swinburne's principle of credulity/direct awareness].
Yellow patch can be empirically proved as a sense-content compared to an experience of God.
We cannot deny an experience of God but it has no validity because it cannot be checked.
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Religious experience cannot be true because it cannot be empirically proved.
Theist is deceiving himself by believing his experiences are cognitive, unless he can formulate his 'knowledge' into propositions that are empirically verifiable.
Religious experience is interesting from a psychologist's point of view.
Reduces knowledge to empirical evidence [logical positivists/Donovan].
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