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What do scientists say about existence?
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RE: What do scientists say about existence?
(June 14, 2017 at 10:19 am)Jehanne Wrote: dilemma
(June 14, 2017 at 10:04 am)bennyboy Wrote: If something has an intrinsic property, it is not dependent on discrimination or evidence, pretty much by definition.  To say the God idea is intrinsically untrue, you'd have to demonstrate that the God idea is fundamentally illogical, not just lacking evidence.

Now, that doesn't mean the God idea is correct; and certainly as an atheist I'm not surprised you're taking this position.  It will be WLC's burden to impress you enough with his brilliant logic that you'll start to seriously reconsider the issue.  But we know that's very unlikely to happen.

The concept of "God" is ill-defined, and many examples, such as the euthyphro dilimena, demonstrate the inconsistency of theism.  "Can God make a rock so big that he could not lift it?"  While Craig can answer all of these, it is because theism is so ill-defined, and hence, a concept that could not, in principle, ever be falsified.  It's like allowing division by zero in mathematics, 2 = 1 becomes a true statement, which means that any number can equal any other number, and as one mathematician demonstrated, one could "prove" that Winston Churchill is a carrot.
All this is true, methinks.
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What do scientists say about existence? - by Mariosep - June 10, 2017 at 8:52 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 10, 2017 at 9:07 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Mariosep - June 10, 2017 at 10:16 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 10, 2017 at 10:22 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Mariosep - June 10, 2017 at 10:42 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 10, 2017 at 10:56 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Mariosep - June 10, 2017 at 10:30 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 10, 2017 at 10:39 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Brian37 - July 18, 2017 at 10:56 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Silver - June 10, 2017 at 10:17 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by bennyboy - June 12, 2017 at 11:11 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 11, 2017 at 6:53 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Alex K - June 11, 2017 at 7:59 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Cyberman - June 11, 2017 at 10:25 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by chimp3 - June 11, 2017 at 10:34 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by chimp3 - June 11, 2017 at 4:07 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Alex K - June 11, 2017 at 4:27 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Jehanne - June 13, 2017 at 10:07 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by bennyboy - June 14, 2017 at 10:04 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Jehanne - June 14, 2017 at 10:19 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by bennyboy - June 14, 2017 at 10:38 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 14, 2017 at 12:19 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 12, 2017 at 3:34 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Astreja - June 13, 2017 at 10:55 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Jehanne - June 13, 2017 at 11:31 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 13, 2017 at 8:58 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Losty - June 14, 2017 at 1:46 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 14, 2017 at 3:00 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Cyberman - June 14, 2017 at 11:26 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by bennyboy - June 15, 2017 at 10:39 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 15, 2017 at 5:12 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 15, 2017 at 6:20 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by brewer - June 16, 2017 at 4:57 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by chimp3 - June 17, 2017 at 5:27 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Astreja - June 21, 2017 at 12:43 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Astreja - June 22, 2017 at 12:04 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Silver - June 19, 2017 at 1:13 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Cyberman - June 19, 2017 at 12:24 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Cyberman - June 20, 2017 at 12:50 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Succubus - June 23, 2017 at 10:46 pm
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Losty - June 22, 2017 at 2:47 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Losty - June 22, 2017 at 4:16 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Losty - June 22, 2017 at 5:37 am
RE: What do scientists say about existence? - by Alex K - July 18, 2017 at 5:43 pm

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