(April 23, 2017 at 6:10 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: From this thread and repeated posts found elsewhere, Brian37 has shown no interest in why theists hold the beliefs they do. Instead he foolishly thinks the plurality of religions, sects and denominations is a incontrovertible defeater, which of course it is not. It's like him saying that a birthday party never happened just because the guests don't completely agree on who attended, whether the cake was chocolate, or if there was a pinata.
No sorry, I am not the bad guy for challenging all labels to expand their sample rate. I am not the bad guy for saying that ONLY independent peer review is the only neutral filter that is agreed upon.
I accept the age of our species which was around long before any written religion. I accept he age of the planet as 4 billion years old, also older than our species. I accept the age of the universe as 13.8 billion years old, also older than any written religion.
Instead of blaming me for what you bought, why don't YOU consider your pet bias is merely that. Maybe you got it wrong and that your desire for a god to exist is merely your own evolutionary desire to be "forever'.
It was understandable in all of antiquity that people made claims of Osiris, Apollo, Allah and Buddha and Jesus, because EVERYONE back then mistook their good fortunes as coming from a higher "divinity".
That was then, this is now.
