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OK. I've already agreed that there are mysteries. And pointed out that there is no need to conclude from that the Christian god is real. So, where nex...

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:smile: I somehow think that if god appeared before us, suddenly we would have vast numbers of theists saying "That's not god..."

Not at all. The only frustration I feel here is that you have not put together anything like the coherent defence of theism I would have liked to see....

There's a gramatical issue here. Certainty is a species of belief, not of truth.

So there is a proof of a christian god in theoretical physics?

That would not be an argument; that would be a leap of faith. You are welcome to make such leaps as you see fit. You come into a public forum, we migh...

Sure. The trouble is, so many folk seem to think they know what that something is. Which of course is just bullshit. Edit: Ah. You too. You see, the t...

There are numerous examples of altruism in animals, enough for there to be a small industry in finding evolutionary advantages for it. But here's the ...

Yep. Kant was wrong. Take an atom of caesium-137. We know that it may decay to barium, with a 50% probability of doing so in the next thirty years. Wh...

If you mean are there things I do not understand, then yes. But that does not imply a christian god.

So fill out the argument. You leave it hanging. Are you claiming that mathematics incurs no evolutionary advantage, hence it must come form some other...

Eventually. It gets a bit rowdy on this ladder...

And so say those who believe - his presence is felt and heard. Even so, one must choose to follow, or not. Who is DingoJones? That question is answere...

Well, there will be multiple causes. A cause is an explanation; so what you accept as the cause will depend on what you are doing, what you are explai...

Looks more like layers of belief than layers of truth.

The core of the human condition, at least for Sartre, is the choice - what next? God is irrelevant here because, even if one chooses to follow god, th...

For mathematicians, yes. And for accountants. Builders and blacksmiths, too. I've no idea. Do you mean "does each even have a cause" or "do events as ...

I've no recall of that.

I've no idea what this sentence is about. So... you are suggesting that the mind is mysterious, therefore god exists? I think you had best put some de...

Can you? As if one needs to know how the mind works before one can hold a belief. No. What does this phrasing say about you as an interlocutor? Are yo...

Logically? I don't believe in Zeus. Nor do I believe in Yahweh. Nor in any Christian god. Nor in blue flying squirrels. Not at all sure what that has ...

My italics. But as he goes on to say, it's not so much that god does not exist, as that he is irrelevant to the human condition. There's something in ...

Arguably, Sartre.

True.

Curious that no theists shave voted. I'm thinking that a theist who thinks their theism incidental will be a rare thing. Edit: Yep.

What reason is there to doubt that I exist? Indeed, how could such a doubt be coherently proposed?

That's it. You have no better idea of correspondence to reality thn you have of flooble.

SO you say there is a difference between something's being flooble and it's corresponding to reality... Good for you. I don't think being flooble is a...

But what is Flooble?

Good point. I know I do, but as for you...

But we all know what true is, too; so why bother with correspondence?

Well, isn't that what correspondence theory says? And also a good reason to question correspondence theory?

Yep; that's what I am saying.

There being two things doesn't imply dualism... Dualism is a severing of the world into two things that are irreducible, one to the other. So are you ...

But here you have not relied on truth functionality to define correspondence. It still waves in the wind. So, so what? You are still so far as I can s...

Two what? Propositions are not part of the world?

There are two of them?

Dude, the equivalence in t T-sentence is defined truth-conditionaly. the "corresponds" in correspondence theory is pretty much undefined.

That's the question. As if there could be one sort of correspondence that fit every true statement; the statement s"2+2=6" corresponds to 2+2=6 in the...

Yep. There’s a conjunction.

A series of antibiotics will get rid of it.

Isn't that just not having the courage to make a choice, in the face of the evidence?

I suppose I'll just keep quiet about that.

I didn't make such a claim.

You'd have to go to imagining a world about which we could not speak; and asking if there were any truths in such a world. Then my position might be d...

Whenever I get to your construct I get stuck and must move on to a different post, thread, forum or activity to reboot my mind.

You know I'm just going to point to T-sentences again.