i am willing to argue against any set of premises that end with the conclusion " therefore theism is unreasonable" believing something is true, does n...
much of this entire issue is based on one's definitions of the words. I would define faith as an individual basis used to believe something is true, a...
Exactly, that is the point. With the only addition is that the 2 year old has no idea at all that he knows nothing about calculus. And our understandi...
as I stated, I don't think any truth one believes is better or worse if believed by fact, reason, or faith. As long as, as I stated, that what one bel...
think my analogy is exactly the point i am trying to make - what is your basis for thinking our ability to actually comprehend the true nature of God ...
and ants can communicate their understanding of their world to each other. And their perceptions of their world can be perfectly reasonable to their f...
and a 2 year old sitting on my lap can make statements about the calculus book on my desk. The point is we can say all we want, and we can believe all...
here is skepical theist response. P1 - we have no basis at all to believe we can make any statement at all about the nature of God. P2. - any statemen...
In general I agree. I think any statement we make about the nature of God has no basis. There is no reason to believe that we in anyway possess the to...
I see no philosophic difference at all between faith based theism and faith based belief in a multi-universe. Neither is in any way at all a matter of...
Not quite ready to believe that. Nation states have various degrees of morality, and different levels of concern about individuals. If that makes me a...
Can I speculate all human beings have a right not to be enslaved ?? How without circular logic would one go about proving that ? Or one has a right no...
I do think as human beings we have certain inalienable rights - simply due to our humanness. One of those rights would be to improve the condition of ...
Not sure exactly - I think there are 3 ways one can believe something is true, and act accordingly. Fact, reason and faith. In general the realm of fa...
Personally - I have no real position on the reasonableness of the 3O's one way or the other. As a skeptical theist - i don't believe we have any abili...
from Wikipedia - use with caution - My take is this is just applying Modal logic to Anselm's base argument. Instead of saying what we can imagine, it ...
So as the caravan of 4,000 give or take make their way toward the US, while we are planning to send 8 or 9 thousand troops to the boarder to prevent t...
Theists don't normally - or classically use the 3 O's in their proofs of God. These are beliefs theists hold by faith, and are outside reason. For exa...
and while the ant may have an ant definition of astrophysics, it may have nothing at all to do with astrophysics. However the ants can still enjoy arg...
or perhaps we have no capacity to understand what God is at all. And all of our anthropomorphic rationalizations and theories are akin to an ant tryin...
pascal's first proposition is objectively true, and is independent of assigning any probability, it is, either God is, or God is not, and we can't kno...
trump has been a master of manufacturing a crisis, creating fear, and assigning blame for it, and unifying some mass of people against this made up en...
not 100% sure what you mean by "religion" in this - but interpreting it broadly - I think most "religions" would say they have already found the Creat...
I always thought the most powerful thing about Pascal's wager was as an argument against agnosticism. His proposition that we are already embarked on ...
I think the only thing science would claim due to a lack of evidence, is there is a lack of evidence. Quite literally just about everything you would ...
So take it easy on me - my physics knowledge is limited, my astro physics is non - existent. If I understand you correctly - you would call the big ba...
sorry - hit the button before adding - http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-beginning-of-time.html In this lecture, I would like to discuss whether time itse...
that may or may be true, but you would be leaving science's best understanding of the origin of the universe. I may be behind the times, but i believe...
sometimes I wonder about folks, I just specifically told you, that I was making that comment about my post, not yours. I understand you thought I was ...
again not philosophy, but theology. The concept of the "hidden God" is to have one's belief based on faith, which they would argue adds greater meanin...
not a proponent of full contact philosophy. Not an evangelist. Have no desire to prove anything. One can by faith alone choose to believe what one wan...
think this in someway is what mr ossipoff is saying “Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can...
Not sure truth is the right concept. One can believe something is true and act accordingly thorough either fact, reason or faith. No one can state as ...
A Catholic theologian would say the purpose of genesis is to speak to God as creator, and in that purpose it in inerrant. The purpose was not a scient...
Can't speak for all, but a Catholic theologian would say the Bible is inerrant in its purpose which is the salvation of souls. The purpose is not to b...
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