I never try to convince people...
I gave them recommendations , books, links, articles, my own thoughts as if each one of these recommendations was a point in a children drawing ...My job was teaching reading analysis for adults...Not grammar but stimulating imagination and relation between fields...
I cannot linked all the points of the drawing i wanted to suggest here... it will take more than one page to do so...😊
The complete drawing is the most simple thing in the world , as said Lao Tse speaking of the Tao ... It is also the most complex thing in all universes as number theory is...Or we can pick the drawing of a plant or of a mammal in our own mind after seeing it , and inspect his potential form variations...Then we will see miracles...
I dont want to persuade people and act on their free will, i want to suggest deep writers and deep video as the one above i recommended...
Anyway those who understand are ready to understand , for those we are not ready the time will come...
To answer your question , I will use an argument from the late greatest american genius , Charles Sanders Pierce, a thought content is sterile seed or fertile seed if he is planted at the right location and at the right time... Pierce created pragmatism which is the same doctrine as Christ : you will recognise the good tree by his numerous good fruits... Truth then is not a nominalist abstraction... It is a real process in the world... We really see the world, we dont compute an image...
In the same way The Source is not an abstraction over the sea of probability, it is the sea of probability itself , moved by the most improbable wave there is... The prime number distribution which transcend even the statistics methods which men had devised to study it...No man has ever probe the bottom of the sea of the primes ... You want a miracle to touch , and plant and mammals wont do it, try number theory or music... It is almost the same ... 😊
I forgot to say that my thought is not a "cogent argument" nor for or against any particular proposition... It is an IMAGINAL motives pervading all geniuses over all history... Perceived meaning dont need to be proven right...It is a non discursive real experience and real perception... For mystic God is not an abstraction... For a mathematician prime numbers are more real than their own body... For Bach music is God himself walking and speaking ....
Who need an argument?
We need reality...
@mahgister Your erudition on this topic as others is impressive, yet (as ever) incondensable to a cogent argument for or against any particular proposition. Please try this one: why should the wildest of all conceivable explanations -- a supernatural cause, something outside nature, hence unknowable to natural beings -- ever arise to a level of probability worthy of mention by homo logicus contemporaneous? Surely the line connecting the harmonic sequence to "god" is anything but a straight one.