RE: Arguments for God's Existence from Contingency
November 28, 2017 at 12:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2017 at 12:18 pm by Cyberman.)
Aristotle also put forth the idea of spontaneous generation, the 'fact' that living creatures spring fully formed from inanimate matter - as in maggots from rotting meat - which remained uncontested for two millenia largely because he was Aristotle and therefore an authority.
Standing on the shoulders of giants is a tenable position and opens up unparalleled vistas only when said giants are concordant with reality. Even they need to show their work, like everyone else. Otherwise they're simply another source of opinions.
Standing on the shoulders of giants is a tenable position and opens up unparalleled vistas only when said giants are concordant with reality. Even they need to show their work, like everyone else. Otherwise they're simply another source of opinions.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'