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Hi, I'm new to this blog. I haven't read all the essays and whatnot, so if you read something I say that you think is bull, I'd like it if you linked me to the essay.
Anyway... Regarding the dragon and the garage scenario: what would the dude say if I were to ask "how do you know the Dragon is there if it's impossible to know if he's there?"
It's an interesting question. Judging by Eliezer Yudkowsky's story in Is That Your True Rejection?, they would be likely to say something that sounded good even if it's not their real reason.
What would sound good?
The question would have an answer for some actual believer in belief - not for a hypothetical character in a thought exercise.
Keeping in mind that the thought exercise has limited isomorphism to belief in God. No one believes in an invisible dragon in their garage ... because there isn't any reason to think there is a dragon there. Theists have reasons to believe in God, atheists just don't agree with those reasons.
"My ancestors thousands of years ago were aided by the provably omnibenevolent dragon, who then assured them he would forever live invisibly in my garage."
Just off the cuff