You're allegedly proving the existence of a creator, so you can't assume it. You can follow both possibilities, and consider the probabilities. If he'...
What exculpatory evidence did I dismiss? I made a point of listing the facts of which I'm aware, and invited you to provide additional facts. You didn...
Nice try, but I noted the need to make an effort to understand all the available facts, whereas Trump clearly ignores evidence when making his accusat...
Sure- when we have prior knowledge of the probabilites, as in a coin toss. When else is it reasonable? If applying the Principle of Indifference (that...
I don't understand why he concludes she is instantaneously aging by a large amount at that turnaround. Suppose the turnaround were not instantaneous, ...
You're trying to have it both ways. First you said: But with the elephant, YOU are introducing evidence for/against the proposition. Which is it - do ...
OK, let's treat what I said as evidence. The fact that you are ignoring this evidence demonstrates assymmetry and bias. Normal distribution of 2 possi...
That's laughable to call a presumption of innocence a "precious human right, considering your support for President who so frequently accuses people o...
Thanks for the insight. I agree there was a historical mistake made, but there's no changing that. Do you have any thoughts about a path forward? e.g....
I didn't give you any evidence. I merely showed that the 2 possibilities you presented are not symmetrical. You're obsessing on exactly one of the ite...
Consider a random number generator that generates numbers between 1 and a1 billion. The number 379,219,771 is generated. It's odds were 1 in a billion...
You're missing the point: you are implictly treating life as a design objective. Indeed, if the goal was to have life, the designer needed to carefull...
I agree with much of what you said, but take issue with the above. I actually agree with the first sentence - it makes sense that women would like to ...
Criminal: A person who has committed a crime. (source) This definition does not say that conviction is necessary, just that the person committed a cri...
I agree that if one assumes the universe is fine-tuned for life, this entails a fine-tuner. The problem is that you cannot show that the universe was ...
Here's the statement of yours that I disagreed with: I disagreed because it seems a wallowing in comfirmation bias. Now you suggest we might reach a p...
I agree its a different thing, but Trump still owns all the unintended consequences of what follows. It is part of the ledger upon which his actions w...
That's another big, convenient assumption. Why assume they should be causally connected (which just means they are detectable)? The fact that others h...
Your point about indirect responsibility has some general merit, but not necessarily with Presidential actions that can have wide ranging consequences...
Sure, but it's an unintended consequence of the tense state of affairs Trump got us in. So although Iran is directly responsible, Trump bears indirect...
Agreed. On another forum, I've pointed out that this is simply not the way beliefs are formed. I'll share the best rebuttal I received. This depends o...
The potential for time would have to have been present in the initial state. That does not follow, but if it's true - those other instances of inflati...
Of course we all have a worldview, but we're also fallible and I think we should value truth. You won't get to truth simply by seeking out reinforceme...
In theory, spacetime CONSISTS of quantum fields. Collectively, these comprise a quantum system. In this context, a quantum fluctuation is not a tempor...
Agreed. But a feature of time is not beyond time. Not "beyond", but yes, of course there is no time prior to the state of affairs that is the first ca...
That doesn't explain God's existence it just asserts that he's uncaused. Any first cause is uncaused, so this alleged "explanation" is equally applica...
There was lots of debate on the JCPOA at the time, and there were smart people on both sides of it. I accept that it wasn't a perfect deal, and perhap...
The zero energy universe explains inflation (the big bang) and all that ensued. It does not entail an infinite past. The only thing it does not explai...
I'm sure you're right that Trump doesn't want war - he's extremely isolationist. Instead of a "better nuclear deal", we have NO nuclear deal: he pushe...
I'm familiar with that. I was referring to the evolution of story of Pilate's sentencing Jesus to death. Over time, blame is increasingly shifted from...
Tim - I re-read our earlier exchages and I now see that I misinterpreted your position. Sorry about that, and going off on what was apparently a silly...
You're mincing words. I described the various reasons why I believe it's impossible to know how western society would have developed had Christianity ...
Jeez! All I said was, " I don't think any Christians today keep kosher. ". When someone says, "I think...", that's a good sign they aren't claiming to...
I don't think that at all, and I've raised that point myself in other discussions. But neither do you know how they thought, and your claim depends on...
How do you know Jesus actually said that? I presume it's because "Matthew" attributes those words to Jesus. However it's very possibly an apologetic i...
I see no reason to think science wouldn't have advanced had Christianity not gained the big following that it did, but historical what-ifs like this s...
That's what the author of Matthew (whoever that may have been) claimed Jesus said, but I don't think any Christians today keep kosher. Even Paul, writ...
The "pagan" religion of the Roman empire was based on ritual, not adherence to a world view. There was no ideological barrier to making efforts to und...
His "gut feel" has resulted in such things as: - a stalling to real immigration reform. - damaged relations with allies - damaged Ukraine internally a...
I'm not sure what you're asking. Society has evolved over time, so that each stage in time is a consequence of its past. Historians examine various in...
The Christian line is that Jesus altered Judaism (abolishing the "law", forgiving sins, and demanding faith in him) and welcomed non-Jews into the fol...
It didn't evolve "out of Chistianity". Rather, it happens to have primarily evolved within a culture that happened to be predominantly Christian. Chri...
Not at all - I'm not suggesting he's low IQ. Rather, he has the sort of superficial knowledge of the world that pundits possess (like Rush Limbaugh an...
Do abstractions exist at all? I suggest they don't. A number line "exists" only as an abstraction, but this is not true existence. It's just a concept...
Yes there are: Edward Feser, and his devotees. While Thomistic metaphysics doesn't entail intervention in the world, it doesn't preclude it either. Aq...
In effect, you are saying: If Thomism then all sin brings about a greater good Tim and Gnostic Christian Bishop suggest that it is more reasonable to ...
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