(August 6, 2015 at 3:26 am)Cephus Wrote:(August 5, 2015 at 9:48 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: You do not seem to understand what philosophy is. If god is imaginary, god is imaginary from both a scientific and philosophical perspective.
That doesn't stop people from making arguments for God from a philosophical basis when they simply cannot do so from a scientific basis. I would agree that those arguments are likewise irrational however.
Many use "quantum mechanics" and other scientific words to try to argue for God as well. Just as no decent scientist finds such arguments compelling, so, too, do no decent philosophers find the philosophical arguments for God compelling. One of the differences, though, is that almost everyone imagines himself or herself as capable of being a philosopher without proper training, whereas some people have sufficient scruples that they do not imagine themselves scientists without proper training.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
