(August 19, 2011 at 3:50 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: It's [the prepositional argument...] been giving atheists nightmares for decades.
Possibly because the proposition of this line of "reasoning" is a grim reminder that the battle for a rational society is far from over.
Quote:It points out how atheists are forced to borrow from the Christian worldview in order to argue against it, so in turn they are proving the Christian worldview correct. Stop crying about it, and find a way to refute it.
So we're going to add "shifting the burden of proof" to "special pleading" and "begging the question"? The burden is on you to demonstrate how I'm "borrowing from the Christian worldview in order to argue against it".
Just for fun, I'm underscoring FaithNoMore's point by reworking the "philosophy" slightly:
Quote:[Deism] is the only basis for rational thought. It presupposes that the [Natural Universe] is divine revelation and claims to expose flaws in other worldviews. It claims that apart from presuppositions, one could not make sense of any human experience, and there can be no set of neutral assumptions from which to reason with a non-[deist]. In other words, presuppositionalists claim that a [deist] cannot consistently declare his belief in the necessary existence of [Nature's] God and simultaneously argue on the basis of a different set of assumptions that [Yahweh may exist] and Biblical revelation [is] true.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
