RE: Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheists Criticizing Religion
November 9, 2015 at 6:40 pm
(November 9, 2015 at 6:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(November 9, 2015 at 1:37 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: When the conclusion of an ontological argument is all you have to say that a God exists, it's impossible to tell whether or not this conflicts with reality because there is no other evidence.
Are you suggesting that the Pythagorean theorem must be empirically verified before it can be accepted as true? Clearly that is not the case. Physical measurements, no matter how precise, only yield approximate values, not the absolute values that define mathematical results. The truth of the theorem does not rely on ‘other’ evidence nor is other evidence necessary.
There are multiple proofs of the Pythagorean theorem that show conclusively that it is valid. Are you seriously comparing mathematical theorems to ontological arguments?
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt668/emt668...orean.html