RE: How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard
September 21, 2015 at 7:21 am
Apologies for the "wall of me" right there. Enjoying this thread. Reminds me of an area where af has it all over tta, to wit the number of deep and reasoned thinkers. Good job, peeps.
Not that I'm really qualified to judge intelligent discourse.
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(August 6, 2015 at 4:36 pm)Cephus Wrote:(August 6, 2015 at 2:59 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Heh, I'm writing a blog post about the huge, conspicuous leaps that arguments like the five ways use to get to god out of nowhere. I liken arguments like that to a tic or spasm: you hit the end of an argument that doesn't lead to god and then just go "and that there is god!"I took on the Quinque Viae a long time ago and found it utterly laughable, I'm sure you're going to find the same thing because of all of the claims made, none of them lead to any specific gods, apologists just say "See! My God!" Yeah... not so much.
As though an assertion like that means anything at all. As though you can just sweep all the specific doctrines and beliefs attached to christianity under the rug and pretend that a deistic cause is sufficient to demonstrate what you really believe.
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