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Absolutely possible. In the end it is either God, or a big black hole.

Just FYI, Lemaître was a priest

While it is certainly possible to believe both, they are not equivalent beliefs. The former is not in conflict with fact or reason, the later is.

Thanks, will take the general agreement on the free will defense. The argument on evil due to natural disaster is less direct. It is based on the cong...

thanks. The way I defined it was using actions as evidence of beliefs. Something along the lines of: P1. People generally act in accordance with what ...

Yea, only marginally tongue in cheek there. I think agnosticism is the most difficult option to defend, if actions are a demonstration of beliefs. Mos...

The public, amateur, "God is" argument is, has been, and sadly will be, characterized with a large degree of disrespect from both sides. From zealot e...

Interested to see how this progresses. Ask a similar question awhile back - Can you use the scientific method to prove the scientific method ? You did...

This is a very amateur question, so mea culpa up front, but I can't think of free will having any meaning at all outside of a theodicy ? It pre-suppos...

So a question - is it the act, or can any act for that matter, without context or intention be judged as moral or immoral, and even after that - there...

You appear more concerned with some type of victory, not in some type of truth - I have no interest in continuing such a discussion

Never mind - whatever you say

I can try - but not sure I can do better than the first time. If God came on TV on every TV in the world and said "I'm God - and now I am going to sto...

seems you need to clarify if you are an atheist as below, or an agnostic as above

Sure - I can by faith alone believe something to be true and act accordingly. As an example - I believe Jesus is God. If there is some plain fact, suc...

I agree with the conclusion - and have no need of the premises !! I haven't taken any position on the O/P if that was directed at me.

think i said that Probably should be some qualifier such as "just" or "reasonable" etc in front of cause - went fast - hope that is implied.

Singer's argument - which logical includes infanticide - which many - including me choke on. Of course it has a big caveat that that child is not want...

In a nutshell - P1 - People like you and me have a future, it includes many things of value, relationships, experiences, etc P2 - It is immoral to den...

There is an apparent prejudiced in the above that beliefs held by faith to be true, have less value than beliefs held by reason. I am not sure why tha...

are you familiar with Don Marquis argument on a future of value ? If so what do you think of it. this part is opinion - not argument - but the concept...

man I am messing this up - that was meant for the comment about it being settled law -

sorry - this was meant to read " if the fetus has rights - that was big IF i left off

legal and moral are at best distance cousins I wouldn't stipulate abortion is murder either. All the other points there are far from settled and there...

The issue with free will is, that free will itself is the compensating good. That it is a good that we are beings of free will, as opposed to some typ...

If you grant that it is not a matter of fact, that God is. (sorry the cap if it offends - too much Catholic guilt not to) Then as a matter of reason, ...

Firstly, as clarity, against an argument that God does not exist with the argument from evil, the theist need not prove that compensating goods do exi...

I believe the most important part in any God discussion is to identify if the belief, or truth claim is based on fact, reason, or faith. Arguments bas...

If your claim is atheism - or there is no god. That claim in no way obligates the theist to show proof of God as argument against. If that is your cla...

I would hope it is a strong cogent argument with a high truth value that your spouse won't shoot you, but it is all argument until you open the door, ...

Thank goodness we can finally put that question to rest.

And since the rise is mass produced ice cream, there have been giant leaps in computer science. Therefore ice cream lovers make better computers.

Seems we are in violent agreement. Well except for that "quite the opposite part"

Life 101 - The scientific method is useful to identify matters of fact, or very very highly probable to be fact. But you can, and you already do belie...

What method would you use to prove the scientific method is valid?

If God made Himself unequivocally known, Pascal's wager becomes a sure thing.

I am not sure if you would or would not consider it a good explanation or not, but the one most used by theists like myself would be the concept of co...

God stops the world from turning tells people all that eternal bliss stuff if you love one another is right, and the alternative, well not so good. Wh...

perfect - and i agree with you. And always have disagreed with the absurdists - freely finding our own "false faiths" is to me anyway - superior to ac...

Sartre - assumed you knew - no stolen glory here My point is not determinism - quite the opposite actually - it is existential - i think we have compl...

You are taking Camus' point a little too literal - Sure you know - it is about the why, the purpose. Why push the rock up the hill one more time , if ...

so are the only answers to being "condemned to freedom" a selection of false faiths ? Is it a false faith that we have the ability or tools to arrive ...

Is it a better world if God came on the evening news - stopped the world spinning for an hour and cleared up all the confusions ? Do we become a world...

Is this in someway a Sarte " condemned to be free" issue? Maybe the scariest thought is that we are in complete control of our lives. And we willingly...

How about as a necessary being ? A being contingent on nothing ?

Agree - Camus' absurdism. Why do we push the rock up the hill. In any meaningful way - as in how it effects your actions. Belief in God is a matter of...

And is there an infinite regression on what started the movement in the first place.

Is that possible? If the embodied brain is alive in a biological sense. Isn't the lack of sensation a sensory input. Brain to body - What do you see, ...

Changing it a little, would it be a good or a bad thing if God did reveal Himself so as to remove all doubt. He breaks in every TV station in the worl...

Just don't think that is true. There are many who would rightly call themselves scientists who are theists. Even one or two philosophers.