Not exactly. God achieves faer aims through humans, us. To cut to the chase, we are the means with which God achieves his ends - we're essentially too...
Somehow, I'm unable to differentiate between these various interpretations of what each - Tertullian, Aristotle, and Sagan - meant. To me, all are ess...
That's it! Theists and atheists have been fighting for nothing. Reminds of the situation where two people are talking about the same person but they t...
The Big Bang doesn't seem to be an issue since god is seen as somewhat of a supreme creator and if the universe is self-created, as it is in an atheis...
Thanks for the fairly detailed exposition on "spooky action at a distance". Before going any further, a few points: 1. Nothing can travel faster than ...
Interesting point! If evil persists in the absence of god and atheists affirm that god is absent, it follows that we are the problem - the source of e...
I suppose there are very good reasons why the distinction the soft sciences (psychology, sociology, etc.) and the hard sciences (physics, chemistry, e...
By the way, a case can be made that if god doesn't exist, intelligence and even consciousness has to be/could be an illusion. After all, if pure rando...
I think we need to be as cautious as we should be open-minded about this. Cautious because beliefs - theism included - have consequences that permeate...
My definition was broad enough to include subcultures. To the extent that I'm aware, "...to sway judgment..." and, by extension, to "...favor somethin...
Transhumanist Theodicy I changed my mind about the Darwinian apothegm, "survival of the fittest". You're in the know about how randomness is what evol...
I feel we need to be very clear, from the get go, what we're putting up for discussion. As far as I can tell there are two important issues that we ne...
I'm more than familiar with that one :smile: I think it's schadenfreude /????d(?)n?fr??d?,German ????d?n?fr?yd?/ noun pleasure derived by someone from...
Not impossible but truth be told, Occam's razor ain't about the truth is it? It's got more to do with how sleek and easy to use a theory/hypothesis is...
You're correct of course 180 Proof - Occam's Razor would neatly consign the god hypothesis to the scrap heap - but...I've been meaning to relate a sto...
You resumed the "discussion", not me. Thanks for the compliment Unfortunately I can't seem to be able to say the same about you. You seem to be bad at...
You've outdone yourself! Such profound simplicity indicates you've done your homework well. A+ for you 3017amen. The issue it seems is not whether the...
If I catch your drift, you mean to say that the the question, "why is x of value?", paradoxically, diminshes the value of x; after all, if it has an a...
Show me a reference that claims that "not all statements can be negated" and that "either this statement can't be negated or this statement can't be n...
Refer to my post about the liar statement. The liar statement = This sentence is false The logic, I'm told, proceeds as follows: 1. IF this statement ...
Nothing to fix, the negation of "this statement can be negated" is "this statement can't be negates". So, If you like, think of it as, if "this statem...
In a Darwinian sense English must have what it takes to keep it ahead of the pack. Some features that make English the alpha are: 1. Military muscle: ...
Tak the liar sentence, this sentence is false The logic proceeds as follows: 1. IF this sentence is false is true THEN this sentence is false is false...
Why? "This statement can be negated" is a statement in itself. So is the statement, "this statement can't be negated". Why should that fact suddenly a...
Not necessarily. Do you accept that, "this statement can be negated" refers to itself? Yes, of course. If so, if I say "IF this (1) statement can be n...
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