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Elliot Fischer

['Member']Joined: February 05, 2021 at 22:11Last active: February 24, 2021 at 22:471 discussions8 comments

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Theist.
Idealist.

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Alvin Plantinga, Alex Malpass, Rob Koons, Alexander Pruss, Joshua Rasmussen, Ryan Mullins and William Lane Craig

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In: The Ontological Argument - The Greatest Folly  — view comment
The God delusion is an awful book and is not at all representative of actual atheology. If your interested in real responses to proper formulations of...
February 06, 2021 at 20:34
In: The Ontological Argument - The Greatest Folly  — view comment
This is an awful formulation, a Plantingian Modal OA is much better and even those are hard to defend (albeit I accept it).
February 06, 2021 at 20:31
In: A Simple P-zombie  — view comment
Now, I'm no physicalist, But this seems kind of like question begging does it not?
February 06, 2021 at 20:19
In: Defining a Starting Point  — view comment
The first event or moment or cause in a chain of events, moments or causes?
February 06, 2021 at 14:45
In: A Modal Contingency Argument  — view comment
No, shrugging it off as irrelevant does not encourage any kind of discussion. I've explained what omnipotence classically is and I've explained why th...
February 06, 2021 at 08:51
In: A Modal Contingency Argument  — view comment
Yes it is, something metaphysically necessary cannot fail to exist by definition, it's existence is purely necessary, so you've got your definitions c...
February 06, 2021 at 01:04
In: A Modal Contingency Argument  — view comment
You can fail to exist due to your contingency, God's necessity renders His non-existence logically impossible. On the Christian and Muslim tradition, ...
February 06, 2021 at 00:58
In: The future and God's omniscience  — view comment
This is an important question. I'm not particularly sure what my position on this is yet, but I came across an interesting paper (Ciro de Florio, 2014...
February 05, 2021 at 22:29
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