Notice how we went from "the nature of God's plan is obscure to us" to "God must withhold knowledge from us in order to protect us". First, we must di...
http://www.iep.utm.edu/evil-evi/#SH3c Look at the skeptical theist responses and the replies to them (this particular analogy is not fully addressed, ...
First, we do not know how consciousness works. However, not understanding the perfect interworkings of something does not prevent up As to the general...
What is the quantity of happiness, how do we go about measuring it, and how can we see the accuracy of quantification? Again, I feel no need to pull o...
[r But why? You have not provided evidence for this. All these words indicate is that we like making relationships between things. Saying, "I like hoc...
Which would you prefer: the life of 1) or the life of 2)? I prefer 1), and I would venture most would agree with me. Also, I do not like people using ...
Well, your English is a bit weird with odd sentence structures, so it is a bit hard to read. If you are arguing for hedonism, the maximization of plea...
I don't really see how the Democrats are going to pull out of this one. The problem is one of dissatisfaction. It doesn't matter how things go: Barack...
Or it could be that the ass cannot make a decision or its mind has a built-in deterministic way of dealing with situations like this. Trolley problems...
No, you have not. Read the replies again. They explain the issue the thought experiment brings up: how do we choose between two equal choices when we ...
This is all about the definition of mind. If you define mind in as that of a human, then, obviously, animals do not have minds. However, this is nothi...
No. You are just making assertions that do not make sense with what we know about reality, as well things that don't make much sense. The only good id...
Perhaps my language was not the clearest. Allow me to explain. We start with meanings first, or the "content" of the word, before we get to the label....
I'm not entirely sure what your point is. Yes, if we called "blue" by another name or used "blue" to refer to something else than we usually use it, t...
Generally, the fact that people believe something is nuetral. It may, at best, serve as very minor evidence or an indication of something that require...
That's a discussion in itself. Each religion makes unique claims, so you would technically have to one by one and show how they are false (though you ...
If you can, try to find a book called Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick.The book is political and he argues for a libertarian minimal state,...
Utilitarianism is a system of morality. Classical utilitarianism claims that what is good ultimately comes down to what is pleasurable and what is bad...
For the observation of religious belief? Directly, people's beliefs. People believe that their religion is true, and they act on their beliefs. Even i...
What rules of logic did you use to get from 1) to 2)? They appear to be saying difference things. Statement 2 doesn't seem to make sense. Try rewritin...
The entire field of how we know is epistemology. This is a philosophical field all on its own and we can spend generations talking about it. I'm going...
My argument does not aim to disprove God, it aims to disprove the argument you presented: God exists because many humans worship God and follow the ru...
Sure, whatever. I'm going to go with the understanding of doctors and other medical scientists, who are aware that there are germs in the body that do...
I am accounting for those religious observations. I'm saying that the hypothesis you are arguing for is unfounded and that the explanation for the rel...
This is just my experience: people gifted or capable at one form of communication are not automatically capable in another medium of communication. Pe...
Perhaps I should note that there is nothing wrong with doing historical speculation. I was more replying towards people like @"m-theory" brought up, w...
Historical speculation on alternate histories beyond very immediate and obvious effects carries approximately the same weight as my friends and I argu...
Yes, there is. Atomic theory (which is technically a hypothesis or a series of hypotheses that can be falsified) requires that atoms, molecules, and t...
To emphasize, I'm not attacking the existence of God, I'm attacking the notion that people worshiping God and following the tenets of a religion is sc...
Can we test these interpretations, or, at the least, collect more data and evidence to further refine them? Science is not my field beyond some resear...
Paradoxes, like Zeno's, have potential answers. The point is to resolve the paradox by rejecting the premises. Zeno's paradox is not really a paradox ...
Correction: light is observed in experiments to behave as both a wave and a particle and we have found that applying light as both a particle and wave...
No. Logic is a systematic way of dealing with propositions and their truth value. You don't get to say a rule of logic is bad or a fallacy is good jus...
But, scientifically, they can't, as they are mutually exclusive hypotheses, as they make contradictory claims about God, what God is, and what God has...
Let's try something more direct. Which of the following do you believe: 1. Judaism 2. Christianity 3. Islam 4. Zoroastrianism 5. Other Theistic Belief...
I think the claim: only works if the rejection is on mechanical grounds alone. By inverse, this means that we cannot use arguments against physicalism...
Scientifically: If we can directly observe the entity, well, we can look for the actual entity itself. If I want to prove that there are sharks, I fin...
You have that intuition because, as I explained in my original reply, we are biologically programmed and/or socially conditioned to desire to respond ...
You keep saying that, but you never actually addressed a single one of my criticisms. I am addressing your conception of science. If you have a decent...
I do not really like using the word justice because of how closely related it is to feelings of revenge and vengeance. I prefer to think of justice as...
Again, I agree with that assessment to a degree. I find arguments directly confronting dualism that amount to "your metaphysics are weird and has myst...
Nitpick time: I don't think this is the scientific method at all. There has not been an establishment of how to falsify the hypothesis, why the observ...
I don't think this analogy potrays the entire picture. The total mind-body problem, at least as I was taught, contains four premises: (1) the mind is ...
You put the problem right there in the first sentence. You assume (hold to be true for no reason) that causality can only occur in space-time, which c...
I agree with you if we are talking generally, but people (in my experience, usually dualists) try to use their viewpoint on the mind to defend a viewp...
That very well maybe the case and I honestly think lines like this are worth talking about and arguing for. I actually am on the physicalist side. My ...
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