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{{quote|How do you explain a sunset if there is no God?<ref>Matt Stopera, [https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/messages-from-creationists-to-people-who-believe-in-evolutio?utm_term=.fbRYQL7MQL#2391829 22 Messages From Creationists To People Who Believe In Evolution], Buzzfeed, February 5, 2014</ref>}} | {{quote|How do you explain a sunset if there is no God?<ref>Matt Stopera, [https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/messages-from-creationists-to-people-who-believe-in-evolutio?utm_term=.fbRYQL7MQL#2391829 22 Messages From Creationists To People Who Believe In Evolution], Buzzfeed, February 5, 2014</ref>}} | ||
Apologists argue that the [[Qur'an]] is the most eloquent book ever written, which is itself a [[miracle]]. The argument from aesthetic experience is a type of [[appeal to emotion]]. | |||
Some apologists argue that the laws of physics or mathematical theories are beautiful and the best explanation is that God exists: | Some apologists argue that the laws of physics or mathematical theories are beautiful and the best explanation is that God exists: | ||
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The most logically valid interpretation of the argument might be that Bach ''is'' God. | The most logically valid interpretation of the argument might be that Bach ''is'' God. | ||
Exactly the same argument can be used to argue | Exactly the same argument can be used to argue against the existence of God and aesthetic experience: | ||
{{quote-source|[God] was counter to the taste of mine ears and eyes; worse than that I should not like to say against him.|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]}} | {{quote-source|[God] was counter to the taste of mine ears and eyes; worse than that I should not like to say against him.|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]}} |