RE: Anecdotal Evidence
November 2, 2016 at 9:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2016 at 9:22 pm by ApeNotKillApe.)
(November 2, 2016 at 8:44 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Meh, I disagree. In my experience most debate involves correcting the opponent's fallacies... and I think it's worthy to not allow misrepresentations and sophistry to be given free reign.
...and it's worthy of my eyes to see William Lane Craig reduced to a bumbling mess in a debate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiJnCQuPiuo
Absolutely destroyed.
P.S. I also love philosophy and philosophy isn't experimental.
I love science but logic is even more paramount. Science is mostly about inductive logic but both deductive and inductive logic are vitally important. Science wouldn't work without logic... hell, nothing would even make any sense and the world could not exist if it were not for logic. If the universe as a whole was like the quantum world reality wouldn't work. We live in a rational universe. A purposeless universe, full of irrational beings, but a rational universe nonetheless. And hell, even mathematicians is absolutely completely logical. It's just logic with numbers. Logic is everything. Quite literally. I'm not talking about the concept of logic, I'm talking about the logical absolutes and the fact there can't not be logicality because if there wasn't there logically would have to not be logicality... there's no such thing as an illogical contradiction, only a logical contradiction, etc, etc. There has to be something because there is literally no alternative. This is the case regardless of if I or anyone else is here to conceptualize it because if it wasn't the case it logically wouldn't be which means it would be, logically, etc. Paradox.
I think, in this world, debating the superstitions is something worth doing, for reasons that I don't think I need to list for you. It also happens to be very satisfying to be John Cena to religion's Sin Cara.
But debating about God is ultimately frivilous in the sense that these superstitions are obviously not reflective of reality and have been demonstrated to be about as much as they ever really can be. The questions brought up in debates about the nature of God are all ultimately discussed on a false pretense that there is an answer to begin with, that there's even a clear definition of what a god is, that there's some point to discussing the nature of an entity that doesn't exist - or if they are religious, that there's some method or some point to trying to understand the nature of God, who by their own admission is deliberately unknowable and also known to become aggitated when mortals try to understand him.
God is a stupid thing to talk about looking at it honestly, there's no value to the topic itself, it's a ridiculous idea and a waste of time that would only ever be worth discussing in a world as completely insane as our own.
I am John Cena's hip-hop album.