RE: A good reason not to believe in God
March 1, 2011 at 6:28 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2011 at 7:10 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(February 28, 2011 at 5:11 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: All of those questions have been addressed Evie,Where?
Quote: and you are indeed making a positive claim against the accepted wisdom.What claim?
Quote:Atemoporality is simply "not constrained by time". What is so hard to comprehend about that?
In what sense does time constrain anything? Anything before or after time is still temporal. What does it mean for something to not be "constrained" by time?
Quote:Evie wishes to suggest that physical and metaphysical (mortality and immortality) are existent within the same realm.No, I never said any such thing. I said that they are contradictory - something can't be 100% immortal and 100% mortal at exactly the same time. So to use the fact that a glass of milk can be 100% full of milk and 100% full of liquid as an analogy is a false analogy because "milk" and "liquid" are not contradictory and "mortal" and "immortal" are.
Quote:He has yet to provide any reasoning for this assertion.I never made any such claim. I never stated that mortality and immortality were existent in the same realm. What I did do - and have done again now hoping you don't miss the point this time - was point out that the terms "mortality" and "immortality" are contradictory.
Quote: He merely asserts "it's contradictory".
It's contradictory because something can't be 100% something and 100% not that very something at exactly the same time. For example, a glass can't be 100% full and 100% not full - or in other words, empty - at exactly the same time. And since immortal means "not mortal", something can't be 100% mortal and 100% immortal at exactly the same time therefore - and this is not the case with "milk" and "liquid". I shouldn't need to point out that the terms mortal and immortal are contradictory...
