RE: Dr. Craig contradiction.
March 31, 2016 at 7:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2016 at 7:33 pm by athrock.)
(March 31, 2016 at 6:34 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(March 31, 2016 at 12:09 pm)athrock Wrote: You might get a response in the forum at http://www.reasonablefaith.org/forums/
I'm an atheist; and besides, there are only so many hours in a day. I would rather post here than there. Humor me -- can one believe in god with 100% certainty and yet still hold the existence of god to be a falsifiable proposition?
Wow. I'm waaaaaay out of my wheelhouse here, but since you asked:
It seems to me that the only way one can be 100% certain of God's existence is to have direct experience of Him. I happen to think that God does reveal Himself to people to varying degrees. And if a person has a direct experience of God, how would that same person be able to say that God is falsifiable?
Now, I haven't spent any time on this, but perhaps Craig has had a personal experience of meeting the Risen Jesus and therefore knows (assuming he was not hallucinating, etc.) that Jesus is alive. Okay, fine. But what can Craig say of value to you about what is a non-verifiable, non-repeatable experience? Just "See for yourself?"
Well, in this case, he might, as a professional philosopher, be able to argue that YOU might be able to consider the existence of God falsifiable if you are able to demonstrate an internal contradiction in God's nature. The problem of evil was one attempt at this, but it has been refuted by Plantinga, and no one considers the intellectual problem of evil to be the knock-down argument that it was previously. The emotional problem of evil still seems to have some punch simply because hearts ARE obviously moved by the pain they experience and observe.
Whew! That's about all I can manage, I think.
