The only way to get rid of beliefs is to train yourself to be a constant skeptic about your own ideas and convictions. You can't erase a specific beli...
I would say so. Memory is nothing magical, it's a physical process of a biological mind that is interpreting data as it is playing back data. A comput...
The problem with memory is that we have other memories that are influencing our interpretation of the memory we want to decipher. No memory is without...
To add Have you ever seen random chaos suddenly form into a shape that you perceive as order? So, is it then unreasonable to conclude that random even...
You are right about the objections to this argument and I don't think you can counter it with "there also seems to be an objective quality" or "Furthe...
So far we know that the universe is deterministic, our known universe has a set axis of time. However, it seem to be based on the properties of probab...
And it doesn't mean the cosmological argument is invalid, it's just not an argument for the existence of god, but an argument that is very interesting...
The cosmological argument does not have any valid conclusion in favour of the existence of god. It's not about disagreement, there's no logical conclu...
The argument has ben flawed for a few hundred years, it's not that it hasn't been able to be disproved, it's not proven anything else than a "first mo...
You seem to miss the fact that no atheist is disapproving the conclusion of the first mover based on the logic and evidence at hand. It's the assertio...
Like morals about slavery and such? Religion is just a vessel for basic morals and ethics established long before the religions you give credit for th...
Then, that person is not an atheist. Not in the sense of following evidence and logic to the truth. Sure, in the sense of denying the existence of a g...
Aquinas is dead and didn't go through both the renaissance nor the enlightenment period. It's still making a claim that the first cause, the one neces...
I don't see any logic here? You are mixing subjective ethics into the argument about the existence for god? I attribute atheism to have a foundation c...
The cosmological argument only points to a first cause of the line of consequences in a deterministic universe, it does not point to a god. Asserting ...
That god isn't truth demands that someone claims that god is truth. To claim that god is truth demands that the claim that god exists is true. The lin...
...is not a claim since such a claim demands that the previous claim had proof supporting it. There is not a teapot in space is a nonsense claim, sinc...
I laughed at this, it was very funny, truly :smile: But you are mixing together claims and facts. A claim demands facts, the claim itself isn't a fact...
Depends wether you work under a jury system or not. A jury system might not grasp many things, since philosophers tend to be very esoteric. However, i...
Then This is why it's confusing. You say "atheist's claim" then saying that your proposition about atheists making claims isn't something you do. If a...
By the mere reason that you are in a philosophy forum shows that you have an open mind to philosophical dialectics about ethics, which means you are a...
The proposition that atheism makes a claim is false, that is what the problem is. If atheists makes a claim, then theism and atheism is in opposition,...
God does not exist is not a claim since it demands that God exist. God exist, is a claim, which demands proof to be valid. Atheists does not claim god...
Yes, there's a huge difference between faith in god and faith in the truth. Faith in the truth only means faith in what is a coming conclusion, whatev...
Atheism isn't about belief or faith, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of atheism that needs to be abandoned before any argument is done about at...
This is just untrue and you are totally ignoring history here. Religion has never explained anything that comes close to anything true about the unive...
I don't, I am looking at the process of reasoning and with facts proving hypotheses into theories and using facts to deduct into logical conclusions a...
Like how our evolution of images representing reality has been evolving. Starting out as cave paintings, we have evolved our ability to capture truth ...
Now we are going into the epistemological territory of what we can know and what we cannot know. An important part of this is defining objective and s...
If their faith is challenged, they have faith without any rational or reason behind it, therefor they aren't acting as atheists anymore. If you have f...
No, if god is proven, god exist. Atheism is a process of understanding everything through facts, what can be proven. Atheists accept what is proven an...
Point is that atheism is purely the process of thinking about the world, life and universe in the way of facts, in the way of not giving up a pursuit ...
I am comparing the scientific method to that of how atheists view the world, i.e through facts and what is proven, not belief. This is a premiss count...
But laws and morality didn't appear out of nothing. We invented morality through the need for the group to survive. Killing other people to take their...
True in the sense that we live without consideration of the argument, but crime and punishment are not functions of the law, since the law is based on...
I think this is a misinterpretation of what atheism is, since it's not about faith, but about rejecting faith as a means to explain the world. In a se...
Religion has no purpose in of itself. The invention of religion is as natural as our human psyche, since we always attribute abstract explanations whe...
For two reasons; most likely hard determinism is true and second, it doesn't matter since it won't really change the human condition. However, I think...
We are limited by what we know in science about the world and universe. The essential problem is at it's core about quantum mechanics and how it's see...
That's the same kind of argument, for which I mean that the attributes of such a first uncaused cause cannot be described as God in any terms of defin...
That there's a world outside of our perception that we perceive through our senses isn't anything new in her objectivism compared to other philosopher...
However, as a small step forward, we may be able to do some things. I'm not sure how it's done in US, but in Sweden every citizen gets a voting card t...
I prefer epistocracy over democracy but I find there are too many socioeconomic problems that might exclude people that didn't have the chance to educ...
But what is important? I can discuss something in order to feel intellectually overpowered and try to win the argument for my own pleasure, but what i...
In theory I'm in totally agreement with you, however, after many discussions I know that objective, unemotional, fact-based and logical arguments does...
It is satisfying when doing it to a person that is as stupid as you point out that person to be. However, it's only satisfying emotionally, intellectu...
Of course, science and philosophy overlap, now more than any time in our history. The question of our existence but from the evolution of another line...
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