The Moving Target Argument: The Twins
I just added this story about proving the existence of God to my still-unfinished essay, “The Moving Target Argument: Why Agnosticism is Rational if God Exists”.
Daddy thought he’d see if his three-year-old twins, Billy and Joey, would behave if left to themselves, so he decided to hide and watch them. First, he told Billy, “Billy, I’m going to pretend I’m leaving the house and you won’t see me, but I’ll be there hiding and watching you, so be good.” Then he went out the front door, snuck around the house, and came in the back door. Billy went upstairs and found Joey and said, “Joey, Daddy said he’s here watching us but we can’t see him.”
“Don’t tell lies, Billy. He’s not here,” said Joey. “Yes he is. I find him.” “No he’s not. I’ll go everywhere there is, and you’ll see.” And with that, the twins set out to search the house, one to find Daddy and one to show he wasn’t home. As they searched, though, Daddy easily evaded them, moving out of one room as they searched it and into the next. Joey started crowing in triumph over his proof that Daddy wasn’t there, and Daddy felt sorry for Billy, so he clapped his hands together to make a loud noise. “I hear Daddy— he *is* so here,” said Billy. “That’s just some bird noise, that’s not Daddy,” said Joey. And so they started hitting each other until Daddy came in and broke up the fight.