charleton

The nonmaterial is wholly the function of the unique structuration of neural matter, not so much the matter itself. And although information, ideas, c...

Faith the the death of reason, the cry of the ignorant and the hope of the desperate.

The existence of mermaids is not contentious; they are mythical.

1,2 & 3. I do not think you have the essential quality of a fact. A fact is first and foremost a statement of affairs, claimed to be true. It does not...

fertility rate is not directly or significantly related to the issue of rape. It may have been in the past where rape was the norm, but it has little ...

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Wittgenstein

2 does not follow from 1 3 greater than what? 4 no 5 no

I think not. H. G. Wells was no intellectual, but a writer of fantasies. Pythagoras was born into a age of ignorance; ignorance he did much to dispel....

I do not think I would disagree. There is a good potential for change here. Rape is unacceptable, and this has been the case for a long time. This nor...

Actually that is exactly what it means. Nothing has no properties and can be only be described as such. You can even say "nothing is..." or "nothing h...

Blame is social engineering. If you think that there ought to be a social element to human life then concepts of blame and shame are going to be part ...

12 disciples; 12 pennies in a shilling; 12 to a dozen; 12 tribes of Israel; 12 members of a jury - it is just soooooo spooky.

That's what Stanley thought about Livingstone. In fact Livingstone knew exactly where he was.

If there is any credibility in the idea that there are cryptic messages in the stars concerning our future. Then that should be easy enough to demonst...

An out of date and thoroughly discredited science, devoid of any kind of basis. Guess my star sign beeeatch!

So what, is that you misspoke. This implies that you are applying a false objectivity by ignoring the ubiquity of varying frameworks.

For 99% of human history this was not the case. And that was the point I was making. The industrial revolution divided the understanding from the appl...

Actually your objects might be my subjects and vice versa.

I think the argument that we are more scientific than ever before is not well made. Mysticism and superstition have never left us and, as usual, the m...

Yes a bias that has no respect for logic.

We can conclude that only an illogical god is engendered by the proof.

"God is said to be the purely actual actualizer, and is unified, immutable, eternal, immaterial, incorporeal, perfect, good, omnipotent, and omniscien...

It does mean it is important to say what god is in the context of the "proof".

So what do you mean by god?

Don't be ridiculous. The thread title is "Demonstration of God's Existence I: an Aristotelian proof", and the OP is a modified version of Aristotle's ...

But that is totally disingenuous since the thread pretends to "prove" god. It's just question begging nonsense. It could be anything from a disinteres...

Oh pleeeese. You cannot say anything about those assumptions and conclusions if you are not prepared to say what/which god/s you are talking about. If...

So you have shown that the existence of Atheists shows that there are people that believe in God - like you. But you have failed on several counts to ...

If it is not represented then it is not information. The world is as it is. From time to time humans get interested in it and that interest becomes in...

No you can't believe what you like and bring it on here as if it were factual.

Yes you do all that using perception as a source. Even lying down with your eyes closed in a quiet room your many senses are telling you all about you...

Therefore nothing that is not an effect can exist.

Nope. Aristotle's laughable "proof" of God has been refuted with regular efficiency for over two thousand years. It was rubbish then, and it remains r...

Humans constructed the idea of DNA, named DNA and built the idea that DNA was information. All ideas are dependant on representation.

So where else is the source of our knowledge? And if I were a visitor, the god assumption would be a reasonable one. There are plenty of god botherers...

Beethoven's Ninth on YouTube on my TV.

Circular set of unjustified and false assumptions.

It's a human interested construction too. Information implies an informer and the informed.

Nope not even the relationship between right angled triangles exist in nature. Without humans to conceive information there is no information. Informa...

This holds the false assumption that a "fact" is a disinterested thing about the universe that people chose to represent in their own way. In fact, a ...

Is Information physical. An amazingly long thread of 45 pages for such a simple question. All information relies on its physical existence, be that a ...

Just because I recognise that we are not bestowed by God with knowledge, and that all humans have learned is from what they can sense in the world say...

Wrong.

Evolution is an effect not a cause.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. PS your graph is a fiction in any event.

Atheism requires no argument, Theist does.

It's like saying evolution causes things to change.

He is both. I doubt he is smart enough to regret.

Everyone seeing this thread will be dead in 90 years or less. Some of us much less than that. I'll be lucky to get 30 more years, and would not relish...

Do you really mean "thought process", or are you after something else.