(April 16, 2016 at 6:45 am)FebruaryOfReason Wrote:(April 15, 2016 at 9:51 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I use the intellectual tool appropriate to the question. I pity you if all you have is a hammer and think every problem is a nail.
Specifics please. When was the last time you used a theist approach to discover anything at all, or to reach any conclusion at all, that we could actually check?
You have no means of finding out anything new, do you? Maybe if the tools you are using can't do that, they aren't really worth anything. You tried to reduce all the points I made to "hammer and nail", but they involve subjects as diverse as the formation of neutron stars and the combatting of infection. If that "hammer" is only useful in just those contexts, then I pity the people who don't have it. I pity the people who are confined to floaty, abstract discussions about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
BTW, I note you are quite happy to ponce off the back of people who work hard with this "hammer" to make discoveries that make your life even more smug and comfortable (or do you just pray when your internet connection goes down?)
When was the last time you produced anything other than a specious, clever sounding, abstract assertion in answer to any problem?
I think that you are either misunderstanding or misrepresenting what Chad is trying to say. In any case however, why are you using philosophy here, rather than science to make your point?
