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So did they add the story of the annunciation and the ascension etc?

One should make the distinction between people who claim that this God does exist and those who are merely considering the possibility. Someone can sp...

Maybe someone should just check if there is 2,700 tonnes of high explosive stored near the White House. Better safe than sorry.

I don't know that with any degree of certainty. It just seems obvious to me, in the light of how much about our origins we don't know. Also regarding ...

Quite, there is an assumption by humanity that the normal, or default state of living human experience is a stable emergent property of the interactio...

Yes, both sides can engage in this. When I first came to philosophy forums I was surprised to see philosophers discussing theology. Then I realised th...

I answered these concerns previously. Unfortunately it can only amount to evidence of human frailty. They can't answer the question at hand and any op...

I think you will find that trying to tie down Mystics is harder than herding cats (just like philosophers). That is a reasonable distillation into a s...

I agree, but for different reasons. My point was though, that it gives to much wriggle room for the atheist. Materialism is blind, in the sense that i...

This is a discussion of positions on Gods amongst philosophers, so all avenues are relevant to the discussion. When it comes to the wider world, it do...

Quite, also we might be intimately involved in a myriad of process beyond our comprehension, or preview. This argument is problematic because the othe...

It might not at first seem to figure. But each of us does reach this fork in the road. Although many might just follow the herd, those who are inquisi...

I agree that the question is not presentable in a way that it can be answered philosophically. But it is a philosophical question by dint of being an ...

But the question remains, whatever a philosopher says. What you say, is evidence that philosophy can't answer, or address the question, not that the q...

I'm sure he doesn't. Next he'll be saying that he can enact emergency powers to extend his rule, because if his term ends, who's going to run the coun...

Shit, yeah, the population might commit mass voter fraud and elect someone inappropriate for president. Thank God for a stable genius pointing that ou...

Belief in God as presented in the human body of teaching. If one were to take all the gods believed in by people and distill it down to the essence in...

Perhaps this is a game of exposing weaknesses in the positions of others, while acknowledging the validity of the differing positions, where they have...

Are you concluding that universal, or absolute time is a product of the Big Bang event? Because that is the only logical conclusion from your position...

I meant philosophically, many have answered it by other means.

It can't be answered (it is a bit more complicated than that*), also all those things that you say depend on it, only matter if one is a materialist, ...

I'm not doing that, what I am talking about is any processes involved in the origin of the Big Bang. This does not necessitate a prior event, it is an...

But I'm not talking about events back in time from the singularity, I'm talking about its origin, or the existence of other singularities, or other th...

The new normal (well until November at least).

No you can't because we have an example of something that exists and can be discussed, the universe which originated in the Big Bang. If we can talk a...

I agree it's immaterial if the science and the maths break down at the singularity. But you can't just stop at the singularity and say things like the...

I don't think we can discuss everything, because we can only know things in our vicinity ( the known universe) and of that only what we can detect. It...

I try to distance my thinking from belief. I sense that I know something, but not really due to thinking as such, but through living. I can't answer y...

Not at all, it's just facing facts. Which is that the material we see before us is constituted in that way (as documented by science), not as to its, ...

None of that explains our origins, all it does is describe the world we find ourselves in. So yes " "it's all smoke and mirrors" ".

Cool, I'm just pointing out that what science (including math), or scientism has determined cannot be used as a justification for atheism, or as an ar...

So everything came into existence when everything exploded. So it's everything all the way down?

All at once? More smoke and mirrors.

So tell me, what exploded in the Big Bang? Or was it Nothing that did I it? Therefore no God. Again, nothing to see here.

This is nothing more than a smoke and mirrors sleight of hand to convince believers in scientism that scientism has the big questions answered and tha...

Yes, but because he is so incompetent that he will cause the break up of the UK. If you watch him campaigning in Scotland today, whenever he opens his...

Yes, I can imagine that Russia exerts pressure on the governance of Finland. It is curious though in the UK that the obvious goal of Putin in influenc...

Is Johnson, the UK prime minister, in the pocket of the Russians? He and his conservative colleagues have been hobnobbing with oligarchs for years and...

The problems is if Trump supporters wear a mask they are wearing a badge that they are admitting his weakness. If he is in denial they have to be too ...

Ah, so saying God would be equivalent to saying nature, I see what you mean. I can only see the relevance of this line of reasoning were I to claim to...

Actually, I said should God exist, my existence and the existence of the world I live in is evidence of this. I'm not commenting on my beliefs. I have...

We can hold the world to ransom and make Britain great again.

I think you are over interpreting what I said, I have at no point said I can prove the existence of God, only that I can provide evidence of God, shou...

You put it so eloquently I thought I would use it to define my position by changing it a little; That if God is the necessary ground of all existence,...

But I'm not adopting those positions, I'm saying that were there evidence of a God, myself, or "the world" I inhabit is an excellent piece of evidence...

This is a possible weakness in my position, but actually my position is quite different to what one might expect here. My position is, as I stated ini...

Can you give me your reasoning that God can't be both the creator and some other player in the world? It isn't an assumption I have made.

I gave you my evidence in my last reply to you. You may have noticed by now, I am saying that we as human minds can't determine what exactly, with any...

It is the ability to bring me and/or the world in which I live, into existence.

The creation/provision of a world for me to live in.