Asking for evidence is a very complex question for the atheist to ask. In the simplest sense 'evidence' is just a body of objects, facts, situations e...
The economy is the weakest link in the chain. It may collapse for purely internal reasons (economic meltdown) or it may collapse because of natural di...
Well, you may have a point there. Say he pulls the cable and you assign the action 'Check email' to that event. Is there a law of nature that says che...
That they are not known has to do keeping the experiment 'blind' so that the determinist cannot say there was unconscious interference or brain states...
That is not physical determinism. It is a 'blind' decision because the list is made before the digits are known. Physical determinism says that each p...
Laplace's original formulation concerned physical law and matter and that is what I am addressing. Mathematical truth is not physically determined by ...
Let me put it this way. We must be careful to keep in mind what physical determinism means. It means that any state can, in principle, be shown to be ...
This is the crux of the matter. When I say 'determinism' I am talking about physical determinism which says that every physical state is determined by...
No. All that is required is that the digits are unknown in advance (to counter the argument for brain states making the choice.) I can say 'I will cho...
Yes, I don't assert a complete escape from determinism. There are many threads of determinism throughout the experiment. Body temperature, heart rate ...
Within the experiment many things are arguably determined including the choice to follow the digits but the choice itself is determined by the digit, ...
Yes, the natural world is fallen, like the spirit is. This answers the 'problem' of evil. Not all natural things are directly created by God. Some of ...
Teleology clearly exists in human affairs; a house is built from the ground up with a plan in mind. Why do materialists argue that while this is ubiqu...
Kummer said that God created the integers and all else is the work of man. He did not believe that real numbers are real. If we consider, for example,...
The materialist implicitly asserts that a person is no more than a collection of molecules. How can a bunch of molecules produce a person? The person ...
A mind in isolation is hardly alive. Life is a discourse between minds, between what is self and not self. Life is union. In the "beginning" God was a...
The argument hinges on the meaning of the word 'evidence'. What is evidence? In the simplest terms evidence is a body of facts and objects that are to...
This, to my mind, is a confusion of terms. When a scientist observes a quantum event, that whole process involves 1. Planning the experiment. 2. Impli...
Time is not simply change. Change is evidence of time but not a definition of it. Time is that order according to which change happens. In the physica...
No it's not a joke! Removing evil people and replacing them with dubious knaves might be a great improvement, relatively speaking. That is all it may ...
Trump is to be applauded for at least one thing; he 'drained the swamp' of the genocidal gargoyles and vampires that were crawling all over the White ...
If a definition of irrational is required it might look something like; Irrational thinking is when thinking is not in accordance with the natural ord...
Maybe 'transrational' is a better word than irrational in some cases. Going by Richard Dawkins use of the word rational, religious people might be 'tr...
If there is a fundamental substance that is and always has been and is the source of all contingent things we can say three things about it- 1. It is ...
I dont think you can have a universe of processes or properties only. I tend to think of it in terms of properties. Suppose you have a bronze coin wit...
I think the confusion is purely semantic. POTUS is a position in a hierarchy that can be occupied by many people. Trump is only one person. T = P, is ...
I think, at best, IQ tests can only measure very basic mental abilities. Intelligence is many different things. A stand up comic can have amazing soci...
As outlined in my first post, mathematics rests on very primitive concepts (essentially number as a set). If primitive knowledge can exist in God's mi...
The question is not about God's existence it is about how God can be complex without a designer. If abstract knowledge can exist in God's mind you hav...
Because freedom is necessary if goodness is to be freely chosen. Created beings must choose for themselves, God cannot make the choice for them. In ti...
No, I don't think so. They would give up the freedom to sin but would still be free in infinite possibilities of goodness. Like an alcoholic coming to...
I don't know. But maybe they choose to surrender the freedom to fall. Origen of Alexandria says that they remained loyal to God by free choice. If all...
This does not seem to be logically airtight- 4. There exist contingent free-willed souls in heaven who do not sin 5. Therefore God's omnipotence entai...
I think it comes down largely to how you view the world. Many people these days are polarized between materialism and spirituality. The materialist ar...
The digits in the decimal expansion of pi are said to be random. Does this mean that we can choose these digits and act upon them to make random choic...
St. Agustin says that evil is not a positive entity in itself. It is a deprivation of the good. An analogy is a perfect Rolls Royce and a battered one...
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