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If any of those things were true, it wouldn't be Zeus. Many of your concerns apply to an all mighty god but Zeus was not almighty. I'd just kinda wished people would stop projecting arguments meant to address the christian god to gods from other cultures.


A) the stories around Zeus have not stayed constant over the century. No religion has.

B) Valhalla was a dimension he travelled to regularly to celebrate the finest warriors in the after life. Why do we think his Olympian throne was on the same dimensional plane as us?

C) Why would we trust a human recording from so long ago to actually capture the happenings of celestial beings?

D) Ragnorak ended with massive floods. How do we know that didn’t erase all evidence on Mt Olympus? Geological records certainly support evidence for massive flooding explaining the reason it shows up repeatedly across religious texts.

Like seriously? You’re seriously arguing that this particular god’s historical existence is falsifiable? What’s next? The tooth fairy is falsifiable because all known instances are parent’s hiding money under your pillow?


Is anything super natural is non falsifiable? Let's say we have a particular haunted house and the ghost moves 3 hand sized objects in the house around at 03:00 on his death day. This should be falsifiable.

Mythological beings have a degree of specificity and some degree of power. The more specific and the less capable a mythological being is of erasing those specificities the easier it is to falsify.


Correct. Science only concerns itself with the natural world. Supernatural is by definition “outside nature”. From a strictly scientific perspective the parameters of the ghost just aren’t known to sufficient precision to start to try falsifying. The statement you’d actually be trying to falsify is “there’s no ghost” and the only way to falsify that is to see a ghost.


You're confusing two different pantheons from two different parts of Europe. Zeus != Odin


I believe they did this on purpose as a rhetorical device.




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