There's a worthwhile distinction to make here. Stories: Here gods/God are various narrated characters, found in religious texts and such. These are mo...
@"Benkei", I'm wondering if lessons from other campaigns could be re-used. Maybe, say, child labor, or something? Don't really know enough about it th...
Morals are subjective in the sense that they're existentially mind-dependent. Morals are objective in the sense that they're not random (ad hoc, arbit...
Not just that, identity (p ? p) is gone, and meaning (whatever is said could mean anything and the contrary). Seems rather meaningless. Or more pertin...
Don't know about @"tim wood" specifically, but otherwise I beg to differ. There are preachers, proselytizers, priests, imams, pujas (and indoctrinator...
Right, yet that doesn't really answer the inquiry in this context. Is it by coincidence/accident that goodness is intrinsic to God? There aren't any p...
, anyone, does Craig's response mean that God's goodness is coincidental/accidental? (Seems a bit like kicking the can down the road.) On another note...
I suppose, if you don't reinvent the wheel, but build it as taught, then you're both a builder and also in a great position to find flaws. And you'll ...
:D Just a couple of observations: No argument, no justification, bare assertion. "You dumb, me smart, I know" takes up 87% of the post, still nothing ...
And children suffer and die from cancer, without having had a chance to live. :( Doesn't seem like reality is where people see their gods. What about ...
During Nazi times, some 94% of Germans were Christian. Not quite equal numbers of Protestants and Catholics, but close enough. That's about 19 on a st...
, and more or less denied by the theists that Hick speaks on behalf of (and Craig, Chaturvedi, ...). Apropos salvation, you're not going to find many ...
Let's try something else then, though still applicable to salvation (by Krishna, Jesus, Allah, or some such). Doxastic involuntarism is easy enough to...
It's a stretched exercise in Christian/Biblical apologetics (with good benefits (y) ). Which is fine I suppose. Tags apart from Tales‘R’Us: #quantumme...
, looks like you copy/pasted from the bottom of their paper? Cited papers via ?Google Scholar? are linked at their names above, check'em out. Anyway, ...
On an infinite past, time is complete at any moment if complete means that nothing's missing. If complete means finite, then we've just shown what we ...
, I'm sort of thinking that perception itself is temporal or process-like (comes and goes, interruptible), and what we perceive (along with locations/...
I had a couple of references, but they keep moving around... • James Harrington • Craig Skinner Don't think it's contradictory (implies a contradictio...
, not quite sure I agree with the quote. I perceive/sense location and distance, which are different from the located and distant (like objects), and ...
Vilnius, Lithuania built a ‘portal’ to another city to help keep people connected Dang, can't even take a walk down the street without being seen by p...
I don't think there are any purely deductive proofs either way. We could start with an anecdote attributed to Wittgenstein: Seems to violate our intui...
I gave up as well. (Wasn't that English is my 2nd language after all.) @"Gregory", you're not really saying much here. If you raise doubt about substa...
Fair layman's explanation of contemporary cosmology: Did Time Have A Beginning? (Ethan Siegel, Forbes, Jun 2019) (fixed a minor misunderstanding I had...
, is conservation of momentum causation? Maybe, maybe not? Maybe if you stretch your notion of causation enough. Add gravity into it all, and we're ge...
(y) Also some of the tracking, using old methods (back to the 1800s?) and new tech. Learning more about spreading, now including some focus on aerosol...
Yep (y) Somehow they just don't trust their deities to speak for themselves (then they pretend to speak on behalf of their imaginary friends, then the...
Just came across this one. I'm sure people have all kinds of opinions on this stuff, with the reference to the US independence thing and all. https://...
I'd say that science is descriptive of what is, whereas ethics is proscriptive, about what we want. So, science just informs, which happens to be good...
Maybe some such disbelievers can be found? An odd kind of wishful thinking? Doesn't seem all that likely, though, or at least uncommon. Plenty reasons...
... is better (e.g. relativity). Anyway, biased or not, we can still say things about the world we're in. The anthropic principle has anthropo-bias in...
The universe is fine-tuned to what it is? That doesn't really say much. By the way, evaluating all possible universes with a sample size of one isn't ...
Let me just try a rephrase: The supposition: Martinez' suffering and death was good (the unknown greater good response). The will and sentiments of th...
Fine-tuned universe, intelligent design, ...? Some evidence and such to take into consideration: life that we know of came about maybe 10 billion or s...
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