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DPKING

['Member']Joined: August 25, 2020 at 18:26Last active: November 17, 2020 at 06:392 discussions11 comments

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Hmmmmm. A really interesting idea here, but the analogy is pretty faulty once you consider a few things. You are asserting that: P1) We have an aversi...
November 14, 2020 at 00:13
`Hi Robbiefrost, It doesn’t seem like you are advocating for a specific side here, but some of the questions you have raised are interesting. So, I’ll...
November 14, 2020 at 00:11
My entire quote was, "You have made several points elsewhere on this post to say that certain morally bad things, like racism and slavery, “must exist...
October 16, 2020 at 12:11
Hey TheMadFool, hope you are well. I appreciate the post about the problem of natural evil, as I find it fairly difficult to reconcile with the omnibe...
October 16, 2020 at 01:03
Hi Batsushi, I think we can both agree that chronic pain sucks and that this argument from back pain is somewhat a personal repackaging of the problem...
October 16, 2020 at 01:00
You are right about the first part here. I haven't offered my own beliefs on the topic, not because I seek to defend agnosticism and the "inconclusive...
September 14, 2020 at 23:31
Hey Judaka, That’s a good point, I definitely don’t think a climate change denier should be off the hook because of “inconclusiveness”. the reasonable...
September 14, 2020 at 20:15
Hi Gnomon, What if it’s not a matter of feeling that a God is necessary, but that alternative theories about existence don't seem to be satisfactory f...
September 14, 2020 at 18:29
Hi Tim! Yeah i think I didn’t make it clear what I meant with valid and non-conclusive. In my response to Dingo I think I clarified what I meant a lit...
September 14, 2020 at 18:06
Hey Dingo, Thanks for catching this, I think I meant to say, “ If a belief has valid arguments defending it, though they are non-conclusive, then it i...
September 14, 2020 at 16:50
Hi Jjnan1, I think that my primary concern with this argument is premise 1, and that the FTA makes claims about the existence of life in the universe ...
September 14, 2020 at 05:22
“The standard argument, used by apologists in countless books and all over the internet, for Christianity is that the alleged resurrection of Jesus ma...
September 14, 2020 at 05:12