Again, I do not think this is how it works with Christians. The Christian merely has a theological framework that allows them to maintain the stance "...
I That's seems like an oversimplification of what happened. Modern Christians still look at the Bible now and have to find ways of justifying those ve...
This answer is currently unknown. For example, the argument you give for why it could not be hydrogen particles is faulty. Just because we cannot repl...
You appear to cut off in your post, but I think you are asking: how could we support and/or prove the premises or show the premises to be false? Well,...
The same way any other argument works: the premises are all true and the conclusion follows from the premises. If one of the premises is highly questi...
The fact that it is arguable and that no one can agree on whether God exists or not is the basis of the OP's point. For example, if one of the ontolog...
The OP stated the god concept they were discussing was the god of classical theism: your omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent variety. This defi...
I do not need to discuss my views on the question of theism, as my ideas on the subject are irrelevant to the truth of yours. I have presented an anal...
There are two parties engaged in debate - believers in space lizards and disbelievers . As fate would have it they both inhabit the same world. Yet, t...
This is where your ideas run into some problems. With cognitive dissonance, we know that people do not like conflicting ideas and seek to somehow reso...
To add onto further remarks relating to the topic at hand: The desire for some type of god concept requires that we put some value into it. In order f...
I will say this: you will probably not find a way to fully eliminate Cartesian levels of skepticism. There will always be room for doubt. The question...
First, I never said that the only rational option was to embrace agnosticism. There are different positions within peer disagreement, and only some of...
First, the pragmatic perspective: whether you like it or not, practically all of our knowledge is fallible. You can either a) curl up in a ball and do...
I have heard this before. I think a way of looking at it is that where Christian fundamentalists and the like failed to overcome their moderate Christ...
While I understand and sympathize with your viewpoint of two people disagreeing about a given topic is odd (one of my interests is the philosophy of p...
That is debatable, especially the more specific and complex the particular conception of god that is being used. Theists may have evidence and reasons...
The only thing that I can imagine is the Trump HQ is supposed to be the GOP website or maybe the email subscription people signed up for during the el...
It is not really about political ideology, it is about political methodology. The method being used not really that complex. The survey is not really ...
I would call it strong arming doubters and using a political language usually reserved for obviously-biased news sites and political groups with an ag...
Because no one has ever postulated that, maybe, humans are not free in the traditional libertarian sense of freedom, or that this type of freedom is a...
I generally do not like comparing people's intelligence as a whole, but like to compartmentalize it. Even then, it is usually just becomes "the guy I ...
Why bother, both with philosophy and life in general? With philosophy, I do not think that there is any headway to be made. Outside of specific argume...
I might be assuming an incorrect theory of time, but time might be thought of as a measurement of causation and movement. If there is no movement or c...
Please explain, in your own words, the modal logic and how the problem of divine foreknowledge I presented is solved. Keep in mind that the people who...
So long as those traits do not negatively affect chances of reproduction within a specific environment, they will not be selected against by evolution...
Normally, knowledge does not have any metaphysical import. However, with God, this would not apply. God's omniscience is always there. The proposition...
This is actually an issue with your argument. The theist does not need to be committed to the existence of Lucifer or believe the common tales surroun...
The free will defense is highly questionable for a number of reasons. First, it rests on three key points: 1) Libertarian free will exists. 2) Liberta...
Not to an extent. Why and how is there a continuum? Natural and unnatural are mutually exclusive categories. You are either natural or unnatural. Why ...
Animals and plants create tons of things that would not exist in their absence. The atmosphere creates hundreds of things that would not exist in its ...
Okay, also, is the problem of evil being presented the logical one (God's existence is incompatible with evil; God and evil are like square and circle...
This sounds like someone who does not understand evolution and is also broad brushing the capabilities of everyone who does not like to wear a seat be...
I do think you might have an interesting point. Your argument might work if it is further developed as a way to make some theists drop the type of cou...
I quite specifically stated the truth of the pessimist position is irrelevant of the one presenting the argument. Even if no one claimed they supporte...
Providing a statistic simply to provide a statistic, while acknowledging that there is no reason to ascribe the value given, is problematic and effect...
Assuming pessimist philosophers have never considered pleasure in their thinking is folly. While I do think there may be something to this line of tho...
The antinatalist thinks suffering is not necessary; we could simply cease to exist. The entire point behind antinatalism (and pessimistic philosophy i...
You then didn't understand Littlewood's law, which arbitrarily defines miracles as one in a million and just meant to show how we should not be surpri...
Littlewood's law refers to the type of "miracles" of unlikely chances. It is meant to explain why things that are unlikely are not really miraculous a...
I do disagree. The gambler's fallacy is a fallacy in thought: you either committed a fallacy or you did not. If you believe that the tenth dice roll w...
Your example of someone asking about a biased coin actually removes the gambler's fallacy. The fallacy occurs when people assume that statistics will ...
I scanned through the first link and it honestly just reads like a brief historical account of various positions throughout philosophy. I do not know ...
The problem is that the bodies of those usually seen as male and the bodies of those usually seen as female are different. Men will simply have more m...
Why not try to help others? Look, there is nothing stopping us from living horrid lives beyond our own internal conscience and the external force othe...
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