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I want to further discuss hate speech and censorship in general, but I feel that this would be a different topic of the thread, which was to acknowled...

I guess that nonexistent things can talk now. Oh well! Also, we should get a site timer that counts down to Friday 7:30pm.

But what does it mean to exist?

The word "god" in the problem of evil means the tri-omni god of classical theism. The second you redefine the word "god", the argument will obviously ...

I never really used evil in that way. For example, the phrase "necessary evil" is completely useable in my books. However, definition issues are irrel...

Unjustifiable evil, however, might. Even if it is not logically possible (debatable), it might practically be.

I am not entirely sure what this would entail. I cannot think of a thought experiment that would not lead to a situation where the justifications for ...

My thoughts: 1. There is a need to distinguish the authoritarian left from the libertarian left who support similar ideology in terms of ends, but do ...

If you define water as a liquid, then the conceptual p-water would not be concievable, it would be impossible. The question revolves around conceivabi...

Yes, you can distinguish between logical possibility and metaphysical possibility. However, the argument only requires logical possibility, as it woul...

If you are asking for a mechanical explanation of the mind, no one has that answered. If you are asking for a mechanical explanation of a p-zombie, th...

Sorry, physically identical to conscious beings, but lacking consciousness.

No, the definition of p-zombies literally means that they are physically indentical to a conscious being and, therefore, exhibit the behavior of a con...

I agree. Actually, now that I'm thinking on it, I am not sure if it attacks the logical problem of evil. I hypothesize that one of the reasons the fre...

Then you can't read. Read the thread.

If MadFool is attacking any problem of evil other than the logical problem, then their analogy is, at best, highly questionable. If MadFool is attacki...

1. If Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal. 2. Socrates is a man. Therefore- 3. Socrates is mortal. According to you, this is a bad argument bec...

Why don't you read the thread and find out?

The problem of evil is not a single argument. That is what you fail to grasp. It is like refuting one of the cosmological arguments for the existence ...

Then I know you are special pleading. Because, if this is true, then god really does not change anything and so it is not that important.

Exactly. People believe things for different reasons. People have positions on various topics, of which the god question is one. I do not even like fr...

The form of Rowe's argument is valid, meaning, in that sense, it is deductive: if the premises are true, then the conclusion must follow. However, the...

And my original point stands. You have to explain why we should suspend rational argument when it comes to god. If you cannot do so in way that does n...

At the point rationality is completely thrown out the window, we can throw out the entirety of philosophy, science, and every other intellectual pursu...

Then you have not solved the problem of evil in all its forms and have missed the point. Again, mere logical possibility is irrelevant to truth claims...

The issue I question is whether political liberalism falls into a similar fate. For example, consider the definition of facism presented: First, all s...

I think you are onto a good idea and your argument makes sense; the paradox arises because Zeno slips in between reality and the abstract language we ...

It depends on what you mean by truth. Everyone has a different take on it, so everyone is going to answer differently. Everyone deals with issues diff...

I used to go on a site with people like this all the time, so it does not bother me. And, I actually learned a lot about science and stuff over the co...

This statement speaks more to what you are bringing into the discussion than the discussion itself. The existence of the god of classical theism may t...

Each observation would have to be taken per case by case, ultimately, though we may be able to group some into categories if we are lucky. What observ...

The evidential problem of evil makes no such claim; read the link provided and the authors of the argument (Rowe and Russell, but mostly Rowe) specifi...

Shifting goalposts from observable religious practices to the general teleological argument for the existence of god. Take it one step at a time. Rega...

Let's say I believe that my car works. That is the hypothesis: my car works. In order to verify this hypothesis, I must be able to do a set of actions...

Okay? Fortune cookie wisdom? Except you use this view of the mind to criticize an argument I presented. Now that this avenue of attack is out of the w...

But its not. You have to set up controls for the experiment to eliminate variables that could make the can unequal. If not, there is always a way for ...

This is irrelevant. I know Harry Potter is a fictional being because the author made up the character and openly admits to that by putting the book in...

There is a difference between leaving the possibility for error and claiming that something is unjustified. If you are saying that I cannot, with abso...

Completely missing the point there: I do not accept that the human mind is so faulty to the point of inability to generate arguments. I am saying your...

My beliefs are irrelevant to the validity and soundness of your argument. Do you admit your argument is faulty?

That is actually a big problem. The problem of other minds takes on a new meaning when we start to think about animals. I think it is clear that some ...

Your answer is also one generated by human cognition. If you are saying that all products of human cognition are faulty, then you and your arguments f...

Your argument's conclusion is that God exists. Your argument, detailed in the first post and supported throughout the thread, is faulty because I can ...

How can I ensure the case to pick each can is perfectly symmetrical and equally appealing in your mind and remains that way as you go through the deci...

I do not need to disprove God to disprove your argument. The merits of an argument stand alone; showing a poor argument for a position does not requir...

I can't. That's my point. There is no way (at least based in modern science and human ability) to set up a real world Buridan's Ass scenario that is n...

You claimed I assumed the premise of an argument. Your quote was still from when I was explaining the thought behind the premise. Again, I already add...

We make choices between competing options and sometimes those choices are extremely difficult. It does not follow from this fact alone that we have ob...

I suggest rereading my post, because you took that statement out of context. I was rephrasing the previous statement. I offered evidence for why this ...

You have not given a valid reason. You are attacking a premise of a version of the problem of evil argument against the existence of the god of classi...