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Yes, despite your word smithing and personal definition of God, The Argument From Evil, is, was, and has always been an atheistic argument against the...
August 24, 2018 at 12:10
The compensating good for all the evil caused by the acts of men is free will. If you consider free willed beings to be a good, then you must accept t...
August 24, 2018 at 12:06
As a point of clarity, the argument from evil, is an argument made by an atheist, as a proof God does not exist. The burden of proof is on the atheist...
August 23, 2018 at 17:52
Because then, it would not be free. If I give you the choice of only good, and you chose good, did you chose at all.
August 23, 2018 at 17:43
The issue could be your definition and understanding of what a Christian is. There is no inherent conflict between philosophy and theism.
August 23, 2018 at 17:39
understand - and you are correct the trinity is generally believed by all Christians. My point was in reference to yours in it was ex scripture. Which...
August 23, 2018 at 16:12
Just a quick point. The divinity of Jesus, and the trinity as a belief of the church was a product of Nicea. This was a Catholic doctrine. In Catholic...
August 23, 2018 at 15:16
There are 3 ways one can believe something to be true and act accordingly 1. Fact - prior to the world of Trump anyway facts just are. 2 + 2 = 4. One ...
August 23, 2018 at 14:50
hard to argue against such a complete and thoughtfully reasoned argument like that. Have you considered publishing?
August 23, 2018 at 14:06
There are very many people, completely in their right mind who find the skeptical theism argument for compensating goods quite reasonable. Your point ...
August 23, 2018 at 11:58
Agree - the trinity is a matter of faith. Faith, other than reasons for its existence are not matters of philosophy. There are no rational arguments f...
August 22, 2018 at 12:35
The ontological argument has valid arguments against, but to my knowledge has not been refuted I do agree the op is a restatement of the ontological a...
August 21, 2018 at 14:12
The government could burn every tax dollar it gets, and still buy anything it wants with a key stroke. Economically, the only real purpose of taxes in...
August 16, 2018 at 21:08
I don't think it is possible to communicate in words in anyway the experience or sticking your hand in a fire. And while no issue that relative words ...
August 15, 2018 at 21:06
because i can see no possible way they could be identical. Could you? All the variables of my particular keyboard, the methods or way I type, the temp...
August 15, 2018 at 19:09
i didn't have the exact same tactile feel on my keyboard that you did, we had a different and individual sense of our purpose. Inform, impress, selfis...
August 15, 2018 at 18:51
i think all experiences are unique to the person experiencing them - by definition. Any attempt to communicate an experience is an abstraction, a cons...
August 15, 2018 at 16:47
In Zen and the art. Quality is a philosophy. An attempt to link the objective and subjective worlds. A truth without category.
August 12, 2018 at 11:58
As someone with some faith in the collective wisdom of the American people how does this happen. Is it just tribal, have we chosen sides, right or wro...
August 12, 2018 at 11:29
politics aside, I continue to be fascinated about how different people can view the same thing, and have such passionately different conclusions. The ...
August 08, 2018 at 20:08
and in fairness. Our President does a very good job of tossing out accusations as well, and that with the weight of the office of the Presidency of th...
August 08, 2018 at 14:55
thanks your answers. Very interested in how the loyal Trump supporters view things like this. Is there a line somewhere, is there some action, some li...
August 07, 2018 at 17:09
There was always the option of not taking the meeting with Russian nationals to see what dirt they have on your opponent, and then report them to the ...
August 07, 2018 at 16:49
Just a quick question - doesn't the large chain of now completely verifiable lies about the Trump Tower meeting give you any pause? I mean they went f...
August 07, 2018 at 16:19
This seems a difficult concept for many to get their hands around, not sure why.
August 04, 2018 at 16:50
My point is very easy to argue against. Show me another complex system where you believe chance was more probable than design, and I will readily admi...
August 04, 2018 at 14:49
Is this better - http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Collins-How-to-Rigorously-Define-Fine-Tuning.pdf
August 03, 2018 at 17:28
My point is, if the gravitational constant could only be what it is, and the weak force could only be what it is, and the strong force could only be w...
August 03, 2018 at 15:41
The thought experiment using the deck of cards, is firstly about the order of the deck of cards. When one observes something that seems ordered, and g...
August 03, 2018 at 15:24
Should we do away with all thought experiments as a tools to explain anything since they are not identical ?
August 03, 2018 at 14:55
This is exactly the point I have been trying to make. If one believes in the possibility of a supernatural designer. A true agnostic ( not so sure the...
August 03, 2018 at 14:54
i think the only thing a deck of cards is identical with is a deck of cards. and the only thing that is identical with the physical constraints are th...
August 03, 2018 at 14:41
on the issue of FTA as a proof that God exists, or more broadly any proof of God is my comments are: IMO FTA fails as a proof that God is. It does so ...
August 03, 2018 at 14:37
FTA is not making a truth statement about the nature of probability theory . Better said the truth statement would be, using the existing knowledge of...
August 03, 2018 at 14:14
Ok, so what is the chance I roll a 1 on a fair die ?
August 02, 2018 at 23:46
Sorry, my comment about the factual nature of statements about probability was supposed to go with this.
August 02, 2018 at 22:30
In reverse order I propose the probability of rolling a 1 on a fair 6 sided dice is one chance in 6 is a true statement. That is a fair point, even if...
August 02, 2018 at 22:28
here is a $400m dollar tweet "The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Pow...
August 02, 2018 at 20:45
let me try a different though experiment to highlight it. You are taking a hike in the mountains. You come to fork in the trail, at the fork you see 1...
August 02, 2018 at 14:25
It seem to me, maybe incorrectly, from many of the responses that some are not clear on the form of the FTA. It is not a proof of anything. It is just...
August 02, 2018 at 14:19
It was all the response your snide post required. Ditto for this one.
August 01, 2018 at 22:17
I don't argue facts. And I don't argue faith, both a waste of time.
August 01, 2018 at 22:15
I may not have communicated it well, but done properly 2and3 are facts as supported and believed as true by current science.
August 01, 2018 at 21:07
My understanding of the argument goes: 1. sentient, moral agent beings like us exist. 2. in order for beings like us to exist those values, along with...
August 01, 2018 at 19:19
yet again - you are trying to change the "what is" That is not an argument against FTA. You are in effects saying "ok lets just say the facts were dif...
August 01, 2018 at 18:29
no, these constants exist - with or without our knowledge of them. They existed long before we were aware of them and had the tools to quantity or exp...
August 01, 2018 at 17:21
I disagree - as per the deck of cards experiment. There is little doubt that design is the most probable answer for the FTA. It is just that theists, ...
August 01, 2018 at 15:39
both the cosmological arguments, and the FTA rest on using some supernatural element as an hypothesis for an unknown. Other than that I do not see muc...
August 01, 2018 at 15:18
The reasoning is self evident to me at least. And the entire point is the deck is in order. If the deck was in some random order, it would change my a...
August 01, 2018 at 10:18
http://home.messiah.edu/%7Ercollins/Fine-tuning/Revised%20Version%20of%20Fine-tuning%20for%20anthology.doc See above
August 01, 2018 at 10:15