(August 6, 2015 at 9:07 am)Pyrrho Wrote:(August 6, 2015 at 3:26 am)Cephus Wrote: 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.
Well, they might use the words "quantum mechanics" in their claims, they don't actually use any valid scientific arguments, just as their philosophical arguments are not valid. It's all a load of laughable nonsense. I wasn't trying to imply that they were properly using philosophy or that their arguments were at all convincing, just that a lot of their claims are philosophical in nature, even if they are entirely invalid.
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide mankind that cannot be achieved as well or better through secular means.
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