Challenge To Theists

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42. You're confusing physical laws and logic

And who says that, other than in our imaginations, there is any "aether" or "non material world" for me to worry about?

(A | B) = !(!A & !B)

Is a proposition of logic, not a proposition of chemistry or physics. If you want to imagine that somehow the logic goes away when the protons and electrons and neutrinos go away, knock yourself out, but you can't do anything but wonder briefly at that concept, and move on.

Even though humans by and large suck at logic, they're totally incompetent to say anything about what happens in the absence of logic. You can't make one thought follow another thought in your brain without a little bit of logic. Take away even a minimal provisional reliance on logic and there's no way to know you haven't gone completely insane, that this conversation is taking place, that I'm not saying the same thing and its opposite at the same time.

The "logic" of superstition and supernatural beliefs is ordinary logic, only with some steps conveniently skipped and some contradictions conveniently ignored. Believers don't actually propose any bold new worlds totally free from logic as we know it, only worlds of where the logic lacks rigor or accountability, worlds suspiciously slanted toward ordinary human hopes and fears.