Religion
In reply to the discussion: If you accept the existence of a deity, then how do you know there is only one? [View all]qazplm135
(7,502 posts)Imagine an alien creature that could bend reality to its will. Could cause half the planet to instantly disappear. Shrink the Moon down to the size of a marble. Things that simply cannot happen due to our current understanding of science.
At some point, it becomes supernatural to us. Even if we try to explain it using science.
Your point is, well, I will never ever ever believe in gods or the supernatural so there's literally nothing an entity could do to convince me they were a god, even if they did everything a god might be able to do.
Which is fine enough for you, but if it goes so far beyond our current understanding and knowledge that it becomes "magic", well, that's a tougher position to rigidly stick to.
I personally suspect you cannot really break fundamental laws of physics. You can go around them maybe. Maybe you can figure out a wormhole or Alcubierre Drive to go faster than the speed of light. But if you have mass, you ain't going past C, don't care how smart you are.
But I don't know. That's the whole point of being agnostic. Certainty in the face of so many unknowns and unknowable isn't logical.