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Agreed. This seems to be taking the contrasting view to the paradoxes of an "omni" God. Ex: can an omnipotent God make a rock so heavy he can't pick i...

Do you consider yourself an atheist? Yes. When we discovered this about our tendencies we learned to say correlation is not causation.

Why would you want to? I would think that it would be advantageous to only tentatively accept a given finding, and then if presented with better, cont...

But it could... "I'm feeling sick. Can you get me to the hospital?" "I haven't eaten in days. Would you feed me? "I'm thirsty. May I have a drink of w...

Why do the properties have to be metaphysical? There is plenty of empirical evidence that people learn to ask questions through a long history of rein...

How would you determine that there is a difference between the two examples? If, for example, a good friend told you that they were giving away all th...

I'm interested in learning. How so?

Then the question is, on what basis do you accept a given claim? Do you accept claims of an existent God because you cannot refute them? If so, then d...

Yes. When you wrote "our world" earlier I thought you meant that the Earth was created in an instant (Which has been a theological claim, but not a co...

I'm not sure how to interpret your claim in the context of your use of "possibility". Do you mean anything is possible, so therefore, a creator agent ...

What more is there then, "The evidence has not convinced me"? If you aren't convinced by my claim that there is a 6 foot tall, invisible, untouchable,...

Unfalsifiable or unverifiable? If you were presented with sufficient evidence of a "creator agent" then that agent's non-existence would have been fal...

Sorry, I attributed your comment to someone else earlier. The word can mean without belief in theism. But this forces the issue that there are those w...

This might be the only thing we can take as properly basic, though I'd be open to considering other things. The 17th century enlightenment helped with...

I haven't seen any claims by astronomers, but what do cosmologists say? How does this qualify as a specific reason? What evidence?

Except, entropy. Why do you remember the past but not the future?

What is a"purer consciousness", how did you establish its existence, and how do you know its capabilities?

In philosophy this type of argument is known as argumentum ad ignorantiam (appeal to ignorance) What does this mean? How did you establish this?

There's also no specific reason presented to think it was created. But if created, created by what? How do you establish a "high probability"?

This is an interesting way to put it. We are ever-changing organisms as a result of our experiences, but the changes aren't evident until some point i...

I think the best one can do is to say, "This is what I mean when I use this term". You can always reject a person's use of a given word, but it may be...

I reply based on my current understanding of the words gnostic and theist, but I have no general objection to others using the terms in other specifie...

I think it's fine as long as people are careful to define their terms. I personally use agnostic to describe my position on topics beyond theism. Ex: ...

This, to me, appears to be a position about knowledge. "I do not know" is a claim that you lack knowledge. I think it would be appropriate to say that...

Dictionary definitions are descriptive, not prescriptive, and they're good for providing spellings and usages of words. We can have a more meaningful ...

If free will just means uncoerced actions, then I don't think people would care so much. If it means that one is the origin of one's thoughts and acti...

Usages of words change. If someone defines their view of atheism as, "without a belief in God," that seems consistent with one of the term's common us...