The argument from concealment
In the SD
I wanted to ask what the rabbi thinks about the atheistic claim of secrecy/lack of intervention, etc.
That as long as there is a God, it is unlikely that there will be any concealment of face.
There is a concealment of face, and hence it is likely that there is no God.
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A weak argument, for several reasons:
- Why is it likely that there will be interference? If He created a world with fixed laws, He probably wants the world to run that way.
- There is strong evidence for its existence, regardless of this (see the first known notebooks and books).
- There are some pretty confusing illusions in conditional probability. Even if you accept that the probability that if there is a God there will be involvement is high, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the probability that if there is no revelation there is no God is high. In contrast to deterministic inference (if there is a God there is revelation, and therefore if there is no revelation there is no God. Which is a valid argument of course), when you switch to probabilistic inference you discover a different phenomenon. You can use Bayes’ formula and see what the relevant factors are. (One of them is the a priori chance that there is a God. I referred to this in 2).
For a more detailed explanation, see column 402, which is entirely dedicated to this question:
https://mikyab.net/posts/72555
Hidden Face?
If the world is God's creation, then what hidden face is there?
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