RE: Ask a Catholic
May 18, 2015 at 8:57 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2015 at 8:59 pm by Simon Moon.)
(May 18, 2015 at 7:24 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Seriously, what kind of proof would you find convincing, Jorm? Are you open to logical proofs?
Logical proofs by themselves cannot prove that a god exists.
Logical syllogisms can be valid in form, but to actually prove their conclusions, they have to fed with sound premises.
Sooner or later the 'rubber has to hit the road' so to speak, and the premises have to be shown to be true.
But if you are speaking of the well known logical proofs for the existence of god (Kalam, ontological, teleological, TAG, etc), they are all either invalid or unsound. So, they fail to prove their conclusions.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.