Gregory

Ok, but if there is first nothing then there would be no action and so no beginning. I believe time starts with the first motion and so there is nothi...

"So we shall come to understand that necessary existence is contained in the idea of a supremely perfect being" Descartes

That's only within the universe. With regard to cosmology nothing refers to no thing

In the Third medication Descartes says God has "omnipotence, omniscience," but also "immutability, eternality". So if God is perfect, unchanged, and e...

The idea of nothing doesn't refer to anything. So it can't produce anything. It's just a word

So I forgot there were 6? So. I don't read Descartes anymore. But you forget that Descartes says God cannot lie because he is perfect. His God is much...

Do you expect a monkey to come out of your computer right now? You don't because the world is understood by you to be rational

We know existence can't come from non-existence without a power or some kind of action happening and nothingness cannot act. Nothingness is an empty c...

If you had even read the Meditations you would know that he says God cannot deceive

Because the reason for what is happening is in our reach. Our minds are sufficient to sufficiently understand a sufficiently understandable world

Lots of theists believe God can do anything yet don't believe he can commit suicide. Jesus was probably one of them and Descartes certainly was. You'r...

Then how do we have laws in science then? If I drop two balls at the same time and they fall at the same rate and do this again and again, the princip...

Well to speak from my own experience, thinking my inner life is only brain matter gives me a headache and I no longer associate with truth. The point ...

That's a disconnection from God and truth

False. Jesus did not say God can change. Also: "But if the mere fact that I can produce from my thought the idea of something entails that everything ...

What would a purposeless thing look like?

Well when we say that this weighs as much as that we are assuming that math really works in describing reality. Yet, is it really different when it co...

They aren't. I don't interpret them to mean God can commit suicide at least.

I agree that logical applies to the world (nothing comes from nothing, everything has a cause), but this doesn't prove an external God imo

Wouldn't it be just the same as mathematics working in physics? In math doesn't work in physics then what's the point of physics at that point?

Why are you putting your words in the mouths of Descartes and Jesus though?

All theists say that

Look at general relativity. It explains the world as interactions of reference frames. But what connects one consciousness to another is the spiritual...

I side with the materialists who that science can explain the world on an empirical level.

The Bible speaks of truth and Jesus says he is truth. The Bible says God can never fail or tell a lie. So why do you quote the Jesus to support your p...

We don't know The mystical side of life offers view answers that can be expressed with certainty Well we are bodies. God is in our consciousness, whic...

The world makes little sense without a center. Call it Brahmin or Spinoza's God. In fact if I remember correctly Spinoza says in the Ethics that God c...

But what if God is purely an internal thing and is not above, below, alongside, and in any sense outside the world. The sufficient reason isn't outsid...

Yes that's true, but then you have to ask if God is immanent in us or not. It's the next immediate question

Well can a contingent truth be certainly true?

Well we can know a holy God doesn't exist, because God is said to be the necessary ground of everything and would be the necessary ground for all horr...

Just as question: does "all truth is contingent" mean "relativism is true"?

What distinguishes us from animals is the complexity of our language. Philosophy of nature is about who we are as humans as much as ontology. Language...

I think Wittgenstein point, present throughout his philosophy, is that we talk even to ourselves through language. It's incredibly hard to do philosop...

It's tedious to go over ontology with people who say life and personhood are not identical, equate moles with embryos, and defend an anti-soul, anti-G...

If someone believes in complete materialism than there is no reason one shouldn't enslave or kill anyone on a whim. The point of philosophy is to give...

Freedom means we choose our actions such that crimes merit punishment. Animals may or may not have this. If you choose to act without freedom you have...

The right to life means your life is good. Crimes forfeit rights because of bad actions. Your trying to take philosophy out of social science but then...

Innocent until proven guilty is law

You don't kill the fetus but if someone attacks you you assume he's not the situation of a fetus. Easy to understand

Support for abortion is completely dependent on emotion and not based on rationality. If you want to be an animal your choices are in your hands

We do not fully understand body, spirit, or death Of course we do Someone trying to kill you is not analogous to the situation with a fetus Coming fro...

We should never recognize the right of one person to take the innocent life of another. If your philosophy says otherwise there is something wrong wit...

We are all lumps of cells

Yes. Matter formed at conception is the soul. I don't subscribe to dualism. Humanity is the form but it is not separate from matter. The soul is all t...

Yes it is. Why not rights just after birth then? We have to presume all human life has rights

What rational person would say this with a straight face?

You're proving one of my points. Once you don't respect all life other's rights will be violated. Why would rights be different because of dependency?...

A human is a human and it begins at conception. You wonder what a human is and so will say absolute rights start at birth but don't know what rights a...

Well you have no concept of humanity or rights.