(July 5, 2016 at 3:31 am)Veritas_Vincit Wrote:(June 29, 2016 at 11:17 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Jor gave you a hint when she mentioned that reason has, in her opinion, limited application. In pure naturalism brains evolved to aid survival not evaluate truth propositions. In other words reason is unreliable.
It strikes me that this is only true if you require 'absolute certainty' which I don't believe exists outside of perhaps the logical absolutes.
But we can use reason, logic and evidence to demonstrate reasonable certainty. Like how on a bottle of disinfectant it will only ever claim to kill 99.99% of bacteria.
What is this logic of Aquinas that you find so irrefutable? I'm interested, it sounds like something I may not have come across before.
Wikipedia Wrote:The Quinque viæ (Latin, usually translated as "Five Ways" or "Five Proofs") are five logical arguments regarding the existence of God summarized by the 13th-century Catholic philosopher and theologian St. Thomas Aquinas in his book Summa Theologica.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinque_viae