RE: Strong and Weak Arguments
December 30, 2016 at 2:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2016 at 3:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 30, 2016 at 2:09 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:It's either as stupid or as compelling as the proposition to which your god is offered as an explanation. Logic 101, but, as we've been discussing, what is or is not logical and what is or is not compelling are not interchangeable.(December 30, 2016 at 11:35 am)Rhythm Wrote: "Who created god" is an academic nail in the coffin to a particular argument, but it's not compelling to you, whereas others find it to be so.....It's not compelling because it's stupid. It's like asking "what is the cause of the cause that has no cause?" or, more precisely, "what made the thing without any prior potential actualize the potential it never had?"
Quote:It doesn't take a genius to understand that mythological creatures would be found inside of and be part of physical reality whereas, if God is the creator of physical reality then He couldn't be inside of or part of it. Duh!No, it doesn't take a genius to understand that....lol, it takes a believer in a particularly myopic god concept, who's willing to excuse his god concept for all of the things that he uses to damn other god concepts, other mythological creatures. Pretty much repetition of the thought process behind the comments you made up above. Plenty of mythologies have us and all the world as, literally, a part of divine being. Your objection to this is not an objection to the rationality of the concept, simply an expression of your preference for one over the others.
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