I've never seen Stephen Hawking, I don't believe he exists.
"B-but he's written books!"
Oh yeah? How?
"He dictates to people, and they write down what he says!"
It could just as easily be someone writing their own books and attributing it to Professor Hawking.
Hawking has never written a single word. People only write in his name.
So how do we know he exists?
"B-b-but Stephen Hawking has appeared on film!"
Could just as easily be a random cripple they hooked a TTS to the chair of.
I can set up a sound stage, and have a guy come out dressed as Jesus to validate the Bible, and you wouldn't accept that as evidence. Why should I accept that Hawking is just some cripple in a wheelchair that's somehow superintelligent?
He had a long history in academics and the sciences before he was ever confined to a wheelchair. So he has a history of being brilliant long before his health went really downhill. And he wrote books and papers by using a computer that would track his eye movements near the end of his life, and could then pick out the letters he was tracking with his eyes.
Your line of logic could be essentially said about anything you don't strictly see occur with your own eyes and ears, so basically everything in existence except the room you're currently in. It makes for a pretty weak argument on the whole.
I've never seen Stephen Hawking, I don't believe he exists.
Oh yeah? How?
It could just as easily be someone writing their own books and attributing it to Professor Hawking.
Hawking has never written a single word. People only write in his name.
So how do we know he exists?
Could just as easily be a random cripple they hooked a TTS to the chair of.
I can set up a sound stage, and have a guy come out dressed as Jesus to validate the Bible, and you wouldn't accept that as evidence. Why should I accept that Hawking is just some cripple in a wheelchair that's somehow superintelligent?
He had a long history in academics and the sciences before he was ever confined to a wheelchair. So he has a history of being brilliant long before his health went really downhill. And he wrote books and papers by using a computer that would track his eye movements near the end of his life, and could then pick out the letters he was tracking with his eyes.
Your line of logic could be essentially said about anything you don't strictly see occur with your own eyes and ears, so basically everything in existence except the room you're currently in. It makes for a pretty weak argument on the whole.
...That's...the point.
It's a parody of atheist arguments.
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