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December 29, 2018 at 03:22
What is false equivalence please.
December 29, 2018 at 03:19
I think legal and moral are more like second cousins. Less than a generation ago it was legal in Germany to exterminate a whole race, and less than 3 ...
December 29, 2018 at 02:34
no just that the belief is faith based. Because there nothing any of us can say about the nature of god that we could support with reason, all such di...
December 29, 2018 at 02:17
Sorry there is no rational . . .
December 29, 2018 at 02:13
no Harry, skeptical theism just says that there is rational basis for any one to say anything about the nature of such a thing as god. All such discus...
December 29, 2018 at 02:13
Gish gallop.
December 29, 2018 at 01:20
as I stated the board has had quite a few a posteriori God arguments. The concept of skeptical theism say all such claims are outside reason. Seemed a...
December 29, 2018 at 01:13
agree all discussions about the nature of god, made by theist, agnostic, or atheist are outside of reason
December 29, 2018 at 00:46
you have lost me, which is not that difficult a task. I am 100 pct sure it is due to my ignorance. When I have some time I will reread and try to do a...
December 29, 2018 at 00:17
That is redundant nonsense. What in independent reality can be seen if you eye can’t see it etc etc I have no interest of a discussion on if there is ...
December 28, 2018 at 23:44
on the value of the concept As far as i know there are only 3 types of rational arguments against the existence of God. Arguments from evil No seeum a...
December 28, 2018 at 22:56
so, did the Big Bang, the event, not exist until someone thought of it ?
December 28, 2018 at 22:51
do you believe there is any such things as facts? Is the cat really on the chair? Can we trust our senses to tell us anything of meaning? Are we all m...
December 28, 2018 at 22:03
agree
December 28, 2018 at 21:50
To help some - If one can by faith alone, and not in conflict with fact or reason believe in the God of the Christian bible, one can logically believe...
December 28, 2018 at 17:00
my bad - didn't reply mea culpa
December 28, 2018 at 16:47
that in no way address the point. Stop and give it some thought, and then make me a formal argument that ends in the conclusion " therefor it is unrea...
December 28, 2018 at 16:46
thought i did with this
December 28, 2018 at 16:42
I would not agree - until you can make me a argument with propositions that are true, that ends in the conclusion that follows " therefor it is unreas...
December 28, 2018 at 16:32
Sure - The God of the christian bible is outside reason, there is no reasonable argument to support this definition of God, however it is not in confl...
December 28, 2018 at 16:26
anything one believes to be true, and acts accordingly - that is outside fact and reason, but not in conflict with fact or reason.
December 28, 2018 at 16:14
I rest my case
December 28, 2018 at 14:27
missed the point - if it is outside reason, it is not a valid faith based truth. People can believe anything - you even chose not to believe the mathe...
December 28, 2018 at 14:16
should be fact or reason - mea culpa
December 28, 2018 at 14:02
Ha - no worries, I am not an evangelist. Just important to know from what basis the argument is coming from. It solves a lot of communication problems...
December 28, 2018 at 14:01
I don't think it is intended to, and logic has nothing at all to do with it. At least in Catholicism - it is referred to as the mystery of the Trinity...
December 28, 2018 at 13:21
you have a creative mind
December 27, 2018 at 21:04
you are arguing against the factual mathematical definition of a point - If you have a problem conceptualizing this I can't help you.
December 27, 2018 at 20:48
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1799125/how-many-points-in-a-line-segment
December 27, 2018 at 20:42
agree - i said between any 2 points there are an infinite number of points - we are arguing facts now a point is a specific place in space, it has no ...
December 27, 2018 at 20:40
been a long time for me - but I have a memory of the formula for a line is y = mx+b where (x,y) is a point, and m is the change in any two points on t...
December 27, 2018 at 20:29
Ok - got it
December 27, 2018 at 20:23
just for some mathematical clarity - between any two points- whether it is on a circle or a line are an infinite number of points.
December 27, 2018 at 20:08
The concept of a singularity is no more proven than the concept of "God" or let's say a necessary being. Both are possible answers to what is before t...
December 27, 2018 at 20:04
interesting that this come after this Never mind S - forget I engaged
December 27, 2018 at 19:24
If, by faith, one believes that there is such a thing as the 3 O God, It is perfectly logical to believe that this Being could, if It so chooses to, t...
December 27, 2018 at 18:21
Walter are you interested in a theological discussion on the faith based belief in the trinity, or are you looking for a rational argument in defense ...
December 27, 2018 at 18:10
Is singularity any more a proven scientific theory than God ?? Prior to the big bang, the common argument against the CA was " who created the creator...
December 27, 2018 at 13:59
I think it goes something like this. When there is conflict between what we desire and some moral belief we feel, we can often find a creative way to ...
December 26, 2018 at 22:25
thanks and appreciate. I think this is a difficult concept to discuss, without a consensus understanding of what definition of morality we are talking...
December 26, 2018 at 20:13
Here is what I find most interesting about these types of arguments. The cosmological argument's conclusion of a necessary being is currently the argu...
December 26, 2018 at 19:31
Does this change with the nature of the act in question. Is telling the killer the lie, or opening the door and shooting him in the knee equally moral...
December 26, 2018 at 14:15
I prefer Thomas Merton’s understaning Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
December 24, 2018 at 20:32
I said faith based reasons - again theology not philosophy
December 24, 2018 at 20:12
I feel it is an important point to make, anytime anyone makes a claim about the nature of god. That they have no reason based support to make such a c...
December 24, 2018 at 20:11
the only reason based claim I have ever made is the cosmological argument for a necessary being I have not made any faith based arguments on here, bec...
December 24, 2018 at 20:06
I would highly encourage an end to proselytizing by both theists and atheists.
December 24, 2018 at 19:12
The Christian is free to believe in the trinity as long as it is acknowledged that this is a belief based on faith, not fact or reason. You have every...
December 24, 2018 at 18:59
I hold my point is both valid and important. Both theists and atheists make all kinds of propositions about the nature of god in their arguments. Yet ...
December 24, 2018 at 18:53