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Asking if God makes sense - is inevitable What I believe is empirically true is man has an ingrained curiosity or drive to search for a meaning for hi...
May 25, 2018 at 16:38
I agree - i think the best reasoned argument can only defend a position that at least at one moment of time - there was an un-created creator or neces...
May 23, 2018 at 14:36
more importantly in the above - what does "true" mean. Can it be true as a matter of fact only? Can it be true as reasoned belief ? Can it be true as ...
May 23, 2018 at 14:20
Thanks for all - appreciate the comments. All due respect - this statement certainly sounds like you have taken a position - in your actions and in yo...
May 22, 2018 at 14:11
asserting that if a dichotomous question has meaning to you, is worth effort to arrive at 1 of the 2 possible answers, and an analogy of evaluating ot...
May 21, 2018 at 19:00
What thoughts do you have on Don Marquies FOV argument ? Or the view that knowingly having sex, where pregnancy even while using birth control, is a p...
May 21, 2018 at 16:18
"I agree that there either is or is not an uncreated creator, but I must ask by which form of "reason" one can establish a quality argument for or aga...
May 21, 2018 at 15:02
there either is, or is not an uncreated creator. There are no other options. That was called being black or white earlier, call it what you like, but ...
May 21, 2018 at 01:07
there is no doubt that I am inexperienced- hence the name. However how does your point of what a position has going for it, pros cons, merits etc, app...
May 20, 2018 at 18:06
not what I am saying. What I am saying is, it is not a position to say proposition A may or may not be true, or this or that point in support or defen...
May 20, 2018 at 14:27
always thought agnostic or your weak atheism was really just a non position, and as such has no seat at table of discussion. They are the tennis refer...
May 20, 2018 at 13:53
Is God's judgment a voluntary (i.e. non-necessary, i.e., contingent) action? If we posit that God does not partake of contingency (a common assertion ...
May 02, 2018 at 19:35
I think why one believes one thing or the other to be true is a prerequisite point before a value judgement can be made on one's rightness or wrongnes...
May 01, 2018 at 20:22
I think this is just reworded argument from evil. Difficult to tap dance this point back and forth across the line between philosophy and theology. Or...
May 01, 2018 at 19:50