(October 12, 2015 at 9:45 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(October 12, 2015 at 8:28 am)Chad32 Wrote: Being an atheist doesn't make you smart, but it is one hurdle out of the way.
And from my perspective ruling out transcendent causes in favor of naturalism while maintaining a commitment to intentionality requires massive logical inconsistencies.
And from my perspective, embracing some transcendent cause by way of philosophical argument and then deciding on nothing more than "well, I had a private experience that I can't adequately communicate to you" that this cause just happens to be identical with the deity found in the holy book one has already embraced involves a massive disconnect -- at least so far as one wishes to persuade others that Yahweh is the transcendent cause Aquinas/Aristotle were really "demonstrating".
