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    Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?

(March 17, 2016 at 1:22 am)bennyboy Wrote: (March 16, 2016 at 1:41 pm)Kiekeben Wrote: You appear to be ignoring two things. First, that you could perform this test on yourself. You may not strictl...
Kiekeben Philosophy 301 29547 March 17, 2016 at 10:05 am
    Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?

(March 14, 2016 at 7:27 am)bennyboy Wrote: (March 13, 2016 at 7:46 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Quote from you: " Qualia are the "what it's like" of experience-- what it's like to taste pineapple, for exam...
Kiekeben Philosophy 301 29547 March 16, 2016 at 1:41 pm
    Thread: Free will and humans
Post: RE: Free will and humans

(March 15, 2016 at 11:49 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: So your consistently sharp posts made me curious.  So I went back through other of your posts until I came to this one.  Which sent me search...
Kiekeben Atheism 176 13518 March 15, 2016 at 10:38 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

Here's one reason I recently thought of (though someone else may have said this before) for thinking that moral principles are not objective. There are certain facts that are obvious and that as a res...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 14, 2016 at 10:33 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 13, 2016 at 6:54 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (March 13, 2016 at 6:37 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: ...Meaning there is no set right or wrong answer, correct? No. A subject can have valid reasons for...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 13, 2016 at 7:29 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 11, 2016 at 3:06 pm)Tiberius Wrote: (March 11, 2016 at 1:12 pm)robvalue Wrote: God is supposed to be all powerful. That is absurd, but if I accept that, then no other analogy is fitting. He...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 12, 2016 at 12:46 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 11, 2016 at 12:04 pm)Tiberius Wrote: (March 11, 2016 at 4:52 am)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: Actually, I never really considered CL as having that position. The problem was with what she said, a...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 11, 2016 at 2:35 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 10, 2016 at 4:52 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (March 10, 2016 at 3:48 pm)Kiekeben Wrote: I say morality is subjective because I think that claiming that something is morally good or bad, etc., ...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 10, 2016 at 6:53 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 10, 2016 at 8:57 am)bennyboy Wrote: There's an angle we haven't talked about yet.  If there is NO God, then what is the real difference between "subjective" and "objective"?  Wouldn't "subjec...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 10, 2016 at 3:48 pm
    Thread: Humans evolved from monkeys
Post: RE: Humans evolved from monkeys

(March 8, 2016 at 9:14 pm)Old Baby Wrote: (March 8, 2016 at 9:05 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Almost. The prosimians/Anthropoidea are ancestors of the common ancestor humans share with monkeys. We are a...
Kiekeben Life Sciences 72 7184 March 8, 2016 at 10:54 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 8, 2016 at 5:59 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (March 8, 2016 at 2:51 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Excusing rape doesn't have to involve, nor have I ever claimed that it did involve, claiming that rape is oka...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 8, 2016 at 7:57 pm
    Thread: Evidence and causes for doubt
Post: RE: Evidence and causes for doubt

(March 8, 2016 at 5:03 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: (March 8, 2016 at 9:55 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Thank you for being the only theist so far to actually consider my questions!  How do you know you are s...
Kiekeben Atheism 43 7840 March 8, 2016 at 7:41 pm
    Thread: Free will and humans
Post: RE: Free will and humans

(March 7, 2016 at 11:26 pm)pool the great Wrote: (March 7, 2016 at 10:08 pm)Kiekeben Wrote: It depends on what you mean by free will. We have desires and we are able to act on them. If that's all ...
Kiekeben Atheism 176 13518 March 8, 2016 at 3:49 pm
    Thread: Free will and humans
Post: RE: Free will and humans

(March 7, 2016 at 3:43 am)pool the great Wrote: In your opinion do you feel that humans possesses free will? What is your opinion on the matter? It is my opinion that humans does possess free will...
Kiekeben Atheism 176 13518 March 7, 2016 at 10:08 pm
    Thread: If someone says to me "consciousness, therefore god", what's the best way to respond?
Post: RE: If someone says to me "consciousness, therefor...

Actually, what we know about consciousness makes for a very strong argument against the existence of God. Every consciousness we know of requires matter in order to exist. Thus, we have every reason t...
Kiekeben Religion 56 7852 March 7, 2016 at 9:43 pm
    Thread: Evidence and causes for doubt
Post: RE: Evidence and causes for doubt

(March 7, 2016 at 4:57 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Another quote from WLC - "I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magist...
Kiekeben Atheism 43 7840 March 7, 2016 at 9:33 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 7, 2016 at 5:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (March 7, 2016 at 4:53 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: God could have prevented rape by designing humans to mate seasonally and according to pherom...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 7, 2016 at 6:26 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 7, 2016 at 4:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (March 7, 2016 at 4:41 pm)The_Empress Wrote: God, by creating humans who rape, regularly violates the free will of those who are raped. I don't see h...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 7, 2016 at 6:16 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 5, 2016 at 11:12 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: From what I understand it's not that goodness exists independent of God neither does it exist on the whims of God, but rather God himself is that moral...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 6, 2016 at 1:02 pm
    Thread: My views on objective morality
Post: RE: My views on objective morality

(March 5, 2016 at 10:29 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (March 4, 2016 at 2:02 pm)Kiekeben Wrote: If I understand you correctly, you are saying that because God created the moral laws, whatever he decrees...
Kiekeben Philosophy 1512 134209 March 5, 2016 at 1:02 pm