(February 16, 2018 at 4:20 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 16, 2018 at 8:18 am)Whateverist Wrote: Sure seems like the appropriately miserly assumption to make to me too. I wonder though if a theist is just duty bound to see it as radiating divine intention.
A philosopher is duty-bound to apply the Principle of Sufficient reason rather than arbitrarily take some things a mere brute facts. IMHO the atheist asserts that there is nothing behind the curtain because he fears there might be.
*my bold*
What a truly absurd idea. Based on personal experience I suppose.