Monday, December 04, 2006
Simple answers to simple questions
In a comment on a previous post, wecker asks (among other things):"In my humble thinking, let me refer now to light. Can one prove light exists?"Yes.
This has been another edition of "Simple answers to simple questions." Thanks!
Consider this an open thread to discussing side issues raised around the topic of that previous post.
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I'm a card! HA!
Light exists, yes - curse me for questioning light. Yet I know people can't see pure light without it being reflected on something else.
Now back to more stupid comments mentioned on postings!
Light exists, yes - curse me for questioning light. Yet I know people can't see pure light without it being reflected on something else.
Now back to more stupid comments mentioned on postings!
The difference between light and God, though, is that light has an effect that can be observed directly, by everyone with functioning eyes. Light has an effect that can be predicted in advance. There is no disputing the difference between a dark room, and a light room, or night and day - the difference is the presence and absence of light. Light has different wavelengths that produce colors.
And we can build instruments that also detect light, so it's not simply something that happens in our heads. The experience can be communicated in direct, material terms, it can be recorded and transmitted at a later time.
And all of this can be repeated for different people at different times, with the same or similar results. The phenomenon of light can be studied and repeated and it does not depend on certain definitions of what an experience is, or certain mental states, or a pre-conception of what light is.
Of the people who cannot experience light, it is well-known why and how they can't - there is some organic damage that prevents them, and the process of light impacting their eyes and making a specific electro-chemical reaction that travels along a well-known pathway can be traced, and a break in the process can be documented for anyone else to know.
In almost every way, light is able to be proven to exist in exactly the way that God cannot.
And we can build instruments that also detect light, so it's not simply something that happens in our heads. The experience can be communicated in direct, material terms, it can be recorded and transmitted at a later time.
And all of this can be repeated for different people at different times, with the same or similar results. The phenomenon of light can be studied and repeated and it does not depend on certain definitions of what an experience is, or certain mental states, or a pre-conception of what light is.
Of the people who cannot experience light, it is well-known why and how they can't - there is some organic damage that prevents them, and the process of light impacting their eyes and making a specific electro-chemical reaction that travels along a well-known pathway can be traced, and a break in the process can be documented for anyone else to know.
In almost every way, light is able to be proven to exist in exactly the way that God cannot.
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