{"id":3786,"date":"2014-02-11T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T11:25:07","slug":"quote-of-the-day-by-andy-schueler-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/02\/11\/quote-of-the-day-by-andy-schueler-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day by Andy Schueler (again!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/02\/08\/william-lane-craig-is-either-lying-or-getting-things-very-wrong\/#comment-1237793386\">Brilliant<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fundamental question here, is whether Yahweh explains things as they are better than the alternatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u00b4t see how that is an explanation&#8221; at all, an explanation&#8221; reduced your ignorance instead of increasing it. If the both of us know the exact same amount about x, which is virtually nothing, and you say &#8220;Yahweh does x&#8221;, then you are still *exactly* as ignorant as I am about x, you have merely given your ignorance a name and a personality for reasons you can\u00b4t explain (so you effectively know less than before because you now have more to explain (x and Yahweh instead of just x) but you haven\u00b4t learned anything).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant: The fundamental question here, is whether Yahweh explains things as they are better than the alternatives. I don\u00b4t see&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,9],"tags":[1186],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epistemology-2","category-gods-characteristics","tag-explanation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}