RE: Argument from Conscience
August 3, 2015 at 6:19 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2015 at 6:22 pm by Angrboda.)
(August 3, 2015 at 2:33 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: 2) The human conscience is the product of something: either instinctual nature, the individual, society, or divine.
What reason do you have to believe that the conscience is the product of one of these things rather than an adaptation in its own right? Regardless, your list of things it is a product of leaves out this possibility. Since this is a proof by elimination (a form of reductio ad absurdum), leaving out options is fatal to the conclusion. Ergo, you can't conclude there is a god from this.
(ETA: Plus you equivocate from 'instinctual nature' in #2, to 'instinct' in #3, to just plain 'nature' in #6 [the conclusion]. That's fatal as well.)
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