RE: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
September 1, 2016 at 11:32 am
(August 31, 2016 at 2:43 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 31, 2016 at 2:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: At least the believers on this forum are willing to challenge each other. Maybe it is confirmation bias but it truly seems to me that the atheist members do not challenge each other nearly so much. I have never seen one atheist debate another about causality for example . It is nearly always gang up on the theists.
Challenge each other on what? Either science is wrong or the monotheistic deities are out of the window. That in itself doesn't mean that I spiritual entity is unimaginable. That's why my sig still read agnostic and will continue to read so. But any scripted god is utter bullshit in lights of what we know about the world and the universe.
Could a totally neutral higher intelligence exist? Certainly. I don't have evidence for or against it's existence. But a humanocnetric deity doesn't make any sense, given the short period of time humans have been around.
Sure atheists agree on the nonexistence of god, but that is just one issue. Even within an overall atheistic framework people could have various beliefs about causality (previously mentioned), ethical systems, etc. There are at least four physicalism theories of mind and only very rarely do atheists advocates of each debate the relative merits of those theories among themselves. (Bennyboy is a notable exception). Otherwise differences are ignored because the atheists, who hold opinions contrary to one another, will only debate against theists.
As for me, I have no problems pointing out when my understanding of doctrine is at variance with other Christians.
