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Brillig

['Member']Joined: September 20, 2018 at 22:17Last active: December 08, 2018 at 10:260 discussions11 comments

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Hi Ben, I think you provide a viable alternative definition of omnibenevolence, but even granting that, I do not think your argument is sound. Firstly...
December 08, 2018 at 10:33
(Premise numbering added for visual clarity.) Hi reasonablewave, I believe you may have misread Empedocles' argument, or perhaps Empedocles' could hav...
December 08, 2018 at 09:38
I'd like to preface this by saying I agree that Christians and other religiously minded people should be encouraging compassionate attitudes towards t...
December 08, 2018 at 08:55
I don't think you've refuted my counterexample about free will. I can certainly grasp that living life without the ability to do a number of things th...
November 06, 2018 at 21:30
I have not read the comments in this read that were posted after your reply to me, so I apologize if I bring up anything that you have already respond...
November 06, 2018 at 21:22
From an evolutionary perspective, groups of humans that cooperated were more likely to survive than groups that competed, and so cooperative social be...
November 01, 2018 at 06:57
Your argument is phrased a little confusingly for me. I can't quite follow any of the inferences you're making between and within each premises. I thi...
November 01, 2018 at 06:13
I'd like to object to premises 3 and 5, despite your rebuttals. In your defense of premise 3 you state that, for a being who knows all things, thought...
November 01, 2018 at 05:37
Again, the specific point I would like to make is that Collins' "rigorous support" for the argument from design does nothing to advance the core debat...
September 30, 2018 at 16:31
I'm not quite sure I understand what you're saying here. Do you mean that you agree with my assessment that the science does not support his argument?...
September 28, 2018 at 19:20
I'm not necessarily implying that the Big Bang was random, or that randomness would necessitate lack of design. Specifically, I'm saying that new info...
September 28, 2018 at 19:13