spirit-salamander

I see it the same way. The latest example of an unphilosophical attitude to theology comes from a philosopher: Massimo Pigliucci @mpigliucci I’m sorry...

But I had the impression that Hart left the question of an alteration in God somehow ambivalent. He has, of course, the clear tendency or conviction t...

By the way, I have already lowered the ambition of my argument. So that no one thinks I want to defend it by hook or by crook, as it is written in the...

I leave open whether God was active in every way appropriate to him prior to his creation. At least as far as creation is concerned, he was inactive p...

You seem to be alluding to something obviously familiar, yet I can't figure it out. Christ dying on the cross? Or Indian mythology? Or from indigenous...

In the specific case here, simply defending the (new) title of my post. I am also looking for counter-arguments, which you have thankfully given me. T...

Okay, maybe I just need to lower the standard of my argument a bit. Since my argument from simplicity would only be a possibility and not a necessity ...

Let's say God is not simple, but that he has parts. Would you agree with the injury problem that is stated below? If a God with parts “injures” himsel...

My argument takes place within the framework of a more or less loose or strict theism. I have not made that too clear. If you believe that God cannot ...

My argument tries to build on the creative function that has been performed, regardless of the other functions that could have been performed. Why is ...

That's fair, I agree with you. I have now changed the title of my OP.

To create literally out of nothing is logically impossible because “nothing” is the absence of anything that has any trace of “being”. Do you agree or...

Would it be fair to describe your construction or model as panentheism? If so, I would get the point. For my argument is in principle directed only ag...

Basically, I agree with you. But perhaps one could say that proving mental model world explanations is possible after all. One only has to agree on a ...

I have a naïve expectation that they will speak up here of their own accord.

Haha, you're right in that it has to be seen as making sense for my reasoning to work. I am still not quite sure myself what to make of this discussio...

What do you think of the “God has parts – God has no parts” discussion in the philosophy of religion?

Thank you for your response. I agree with you that there are of course some alternatives to my construction which fits the God's Debris notion. (Aside...

Why would it ever have entered your mind to ignore me, since I was and am ready for a discussion from the very beginning, and have shown doing so? Bes...

I didn't so much want to label as to inquire what your position is more precisely. If I gave the impression of merely labeling you, then I apologize. ...

But it looks more to me that we have only begun to learn about it. How is it that in 2006 an expert admitted a complete lack of knowledge? If it is so...

So to you, I am a cretin. For me, you are a dishonest, disingenuous interlocutor. You believe in God? But I'm no longer interested in your answer eith...

To all. What aPicture arises when you read the following quotes? Please read with an open mind. Venus: the hot spot 'It's very disturbing that we do n...

I think that's a bit disingenuous on your part. If you read my listed snippets from scientific articles, then you will realize, hand on your heart and...

So you're an instrumentalist, a pragmatist, a non-realist? And you are a skeptic?

So you don't think that ideals should be pursued. Isn't that what one teaches children? Ideal parents, ideal politicians, ideal students, etc., even i...

Maybe it's not magic: Astrophysicist Dr. Percy Seymour magnetic theory of astrology

Sure, but still there is an ideal of the scientist. A standard to which all scientists want and should adhere. Love of truth and objectivity, sobriety...

Do you say so because you have already studied the history and systematic astrology in depth and have tested it on yourself and others? Or do you say ...

Paul Feyerabend once played the devil's advocate and defended astrology, and he saw that the arguments against the very ancient tradition of astrology...

That's right. But I think everyone can soberly say for themselves, what if. For example, a friend of mine once said that if astrology proved to be cor...

And many do not realize how spiteful, how contemptuous, how prejudiced and biased the scientific debates have been throughout history. Many scientists...

Would you say that this fact is problematic?

My question was intended as a psychological test. I think many might say: should astrology turn out to work by whatever means, then I no longer believ...

Just for the sake of argument, what if astrology were true? How would it affect your scientific worldview and philosophy?

Knowing more is relative. Yes, they know more than I do. Still, they would say they know very little and are only beginning to slowly understand these...

So my thesis is that we know very little about the interactions between the sun and the many layers of the earth's atmosphere. And very little about t...

I'm not talking about boiling the water. That should have been obvious after all. I think more about e.g. cloud formation as one example. Now you're r...

I mean the totality of the theses of every single scientist in every generation. Most of the theses can be said to have turned out to be wrong. I real...

Certain predictions regarding water behavior would then simply be uncertain. An analogy to climate. How often have scientists been wrong in history? A...

Maybe you are right. But how do you know? The media's scaremongering is not a reliable source either. I'm not necessarily on Lomborg 's side either. I...

That is a fact. What do you say?

And I would add that we still do not understand the properties and behaviors and operations of water in certain circumstances. In this regard, please ...

No, climate is an extremely complex thing and not like anything. That is not a substantial response. I might say severe droughts have always existed. ...

By global warming, I assume you mean man-made global warming. That is, the idea that humans, with their powered machines and factory farming, are prim...

I just want to say that there are models of a Supreme Being that it is no thing at all. For example, Hegel asserts that absolute “Being itself” seems ...

If one understands “something” in a very wide sense, so that no weight is put on the thingness in it, then indeed some unitary being is assumed by som...

So mentation is timeless, that is, without succession? The universal mind has no dashboard of physicalism? The universal mind is unbounded mentation? ...

This is a very good question, perhaps the most important of all, to which an idealist must give a very thorough and detailed answer. Kastrup's answer ...

I think I understand your approach. But, as I said, one can make a philosophically justified distinction between a potential person (Newborn) and an a...