(July 1, 2012 at 4:25 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: Actually I don't 'deny' god's existence, I simply don't believe he exists. I lack belief in god. Can't deny something you don't believe exists.
Do you act as though there's no God? If so, then under Pragmatism you do deny the existence of God.
Quote:It in no way demonstrates the existence of a god.
Now that's interesting. Care to explain?
Quote:Well if things can be explained without the need for a god and in which case would be more credible then that's that. A god isn't required to answer why or how. Before you add god into the equation you must first demonstrate god's existence. A does not prove B without first proving A.
Simples.
Almost none of that made sense.
"Before you add god into the equation you must first demonstrate god's existence"? So you can't even hypothetically consider what 'adding God into the equation' does until you've proved that God, in fact, exists?
"A does not prove B without first proving A." This makes zero sense to me. Do you mean that you need to know both "A is true" and "A implies B" in order to know "B is true"--that is, "A implies B" doesn't prove B unless you prove that A also holds?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
