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I'm not sure you understand the point that I'm making. I am critical of those who think that it is acceptable to drastically lower the quality of thei...

I don't think you know what it means to be a physicalist, and you now seem to have lost track of our conversation.

That's the funniest thing you've said by far.

I thought you "were done"? More evidence that you're full of it.

That's a complete non sequitur. Again, you do not have to be a physicalist in order to maintain consistency in the sense I've described.

You're done now? Phew, that's a relief. You almost blew me away! Not with impressive arguments, of course. You've produced enough hot air to have fill...

It's simply not true that all claims of a religious nature are nonempirical. You seem to be confusing your own personal take on religion for religion ...

But it's hard to get over such a silly comment. I get that someone else might be stupid enough to call all manner of ridiculous things credible, but t...

This notion of two separate and mutually exclusive domains is balderdash. For that to be the case, it would have to be true of all religious claims, w...

There's no universal epistemic standard, you must mean. And yes, you haven't told me anything new there. I've been over where the two standards differ...

That's a highly misleading statement. It's not a "beauty is in the eye if the beholder" type thing. You can't polish a turd.

Now you're just basically echoing my own point back to me, namely that it's only relevant to the topic insofar as it relates to religious beliefs, alt...

But that's what we're talking about: epistemology. Anything else is a digression. Certainly remarks about feeling love for reality are light-years awa...

I wasn't calling it ludicrous to say that you or I don't know the (full) nature of another's conscious experience and their reasons for interpreting i...

No, I don't have to resort to guesswork. What a ludicrous thing to say. It's possible that there are some people who have secret paranormal abilities ...

I don't care about any of that unless you expect me to take any beliefs you might have about supernatural beings and whatnot credibly. Because they're...

You don't have to be. I'm not a physicalist either. But I have no problem with arriving at beliefs through conscious experience. I have a problem with...

Oh, right. I see. So, because I think highly of Hume, I must therefore agree with everything he had to say. I think that very few people, in this day ...

Sorry, it's just that the hot air you're sending my way is making me drowsy.

Sure it can. Why not? I'm only making the point that the epistemological standards are nothing alike in terms of merit or credibility, and that it's i...

I've been making the argument throughout this discussion. That analogy is just a different way to express what I've been saying from the start. Just b...

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Why don't you read about the Enlightenment and contrast it with the Dark Ages? That should give you some idea of what I'm getting at. The spirit of th...

Yes, and they selectively lower the high standards you get with the scientific method when it comes to their dogmatic religious beliefs. They lower th...

I know that science can't answer everything, and I've never claimed or suggested otherwise. Not once. This ridiculous suggestion, or outright accusati...

Oh look, it's the childish "scientism" smear again. Nothing in your above reply addresses my point, which I stand by. You're not wrong because I must ...

That doesn't make any sense. So, in this example, a plastic ball is a metaphor for something else: a planet. That's how metaphors work. A god isn't a ...

You're wrong on that point. You are responding to this matter like someone who is unduly focused on the letter of the law, whilst neglecting the spiri...

I have done so. You want me to repeat it? You enjoy going around in circles?

Of course there's an incompatibility! You just spoke of it yourself. There's nothing in the scientific method which says, "Just believe whatever you l...

You don't have to. There's a simple and short answer if that's the case, namely scepticism. But you're not a sceptic, so you're not scientifically-min...

You can call it whatever you like, but the cause of our consciousness is subject to the scientific method. Saying things like, "It's my personal prefe...

I've made the point. You're simply wrong, and I'm not going to go around in circles with you.

Or you could just not give that a silly name.

No.

So Christian's don't have a set of key beliefs or things they'd claim to be true? (And I can read, thanks. You don't need to point out things that I'm...

Look, if you you're an exception, then good for you. You obviously in that case wouldn't be who I'm talking about, and therefore beside the point. The...

Lol.

In other words, you want these absurd claims shielded from scientific scrutiny, on the basis of a complete irrelevancy, namely that they are taken upo...

By definition, yes. Unless you have some other meaning in mind. What's your point?

The reasoning behind the conclusion has been explained. What don't you understand about it? They're inconsistent in the sense which matters most, whic...

It's pretty meaningless talking about religion as a whole because of the sizeable variation in different religions and how they're interpreted. That's...

The historical method doesn't support the incredible claims of religion either. Scientism is a red herring used in discussions such as this as a smear...

That's nothing but a self-serving delusion. You turn a blind eye to those religious claims of fact. These claims are open to scientific examination, w...

Exactly.

He was a devout Catholic and he wasn't a skeptic, so there's no contradiction.

It was an example of a religion. The biggest one, by the way. The topic is religion. That is of obvious relevance to the topic. My points have only ev...

The rifle used in the Garlic Festival shooting was legally purchased in Nevada. One of the victims who sadly died was a six year-old boy.

Yes they do. Core claims in Christianity: God exists, there's an afterlife, Jesus is the son of God, the Holy Spirit of Jesus rose from the grave. Sci...

When you've read my posts properly, feel free to get back to me for a serious discussion in relation to scripture.