(October 16, 2017 at 9:39 am)Brian37 Wrote:(October 16, 2017 at 5:01 am)Ignorant Wrote: An infinite past is not a problem for theism. It would be a problem for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but it isn't a problem for theism.
I like the paper's arguments though. Well done.
What? No sorry, all human religions are inventions of humans and would and do all still beg the question.
Don't try to make excuses for any non Abraham religion. Watered down mythology/superstition are still just that.
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The only reason ANY and all religions exist, is because humans gap fill and those made up answers do provide social structure, but they are not an explanation to scientific reality. Most of our 7 billion get handed the social norms of their parents BEFORE they can form critical thinking skills. I don't give any religion a pass on this. NOT ANY.
Do you consider the God of Aristotle a religious God?
Is deism a religion?
By theism, I meant merely a metaphysical/purely philosophical account of reality which includes some sort of self-explanatory/self-existent "being". An infinite past is not mutually exclusive with these sorts of accounts.
