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adhomienem

['Member']Joined: September 23, 2018 at 22:07Last active: August 08, 2019 at 23:582 discussions13 comments

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Well, sure, if that's how you want to define "atheistic scientists" and "non-atheistic scientists." This the layout of your argument: 1. If a scientis...
December 07, 2018 at 21:07
The difference between the GCB and the island is that the GCB is not finitely bound while the island, by definition, must remain finite. So it isn't t...
December 06, 2018 at 22:25
is that statement you just made a factual matter?
December 06, 2018 at 21:11
What is your basis then for determining the weight of each parent's opinion?
December 06, 2018 at 20:36
Such blatant straw men are unnecessary. There are outliers to almost every group, and feminist philosophy is no exception. So I have no interest in de...
December 06, 2018 at 19:02
I'd like to argue against your conclusion by denying this premise. Here's my counterargument: 1. God is omnibenevolent. 2. It is better for people to ...
December 05, 2018 at 23:42
To your rebuttal of premise 3: your attention shifts because your attention is limited. Your states of being change because you are mutable. The GCB w...
November 01, 2018 at 22:28
I'm only using references to time-- "when," "before," etc.-- because we are temporal beings who cannot think outside of events in relation to time. Pe...
November 01, 2018 at 22:12
Yeah, thank you. That was circular. I changed the argument a little; hopefully that helps.
November 01, 2018 at 04:56
If you're granting that the appearance of fine-tuning in this world makes it possible that a Creator exists, then, and if you equate that Creator with...
November 01, 2018 at 03:31
Your response to premise 1 misinterprets Yajur’s original claim: He is not stating that the good does truly not outweigh the bad, only that we often l...
October 31, 2018 at 22:33
Let's say that you're talking to one of your best friends, and as they're talking, you realize that they are about to say one of their common catchphr...
October 01, 2018 at 08:09
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God’s presence is not as one-dimensional as the presence of finite material beings. Biblically, there is a difference between God’s fully glorified pr...
October 01, 2018 at 06:33
In: Hell  — view comment
I'd like to reply to your first premise, "If God is all-loving, he would not have created hell." In objecting to this conditional, I first want to def...
September 24, 2018 at 06:25