(December 9, 2017 at 4:03 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(December 9, 2017 at 3:27 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Is an acorn an oak tree?Actually math facts only makes sense with deity.
Says who? You?? Does 2+2=4 make sense only with belief in a deity?? I cannot imagine that 2+2 is anything other than 4. Ditto for morality; there are certain acts that are intrinsically evil. Abortion is not one of those acts! In fact, good Catholic women have been having abortions for many centuries.
So, God "caused" 2+2 to equal 4; could he/she/it have caused it to equal '5'? Or, any other number, for that matter?
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A word is just a word until we agree on what it means. 2+2 could equal "blue" if we agreed on it. Naturally we have to agree on a lot of things (words) if we are to have any meaningful conversation of else we will all be speaking foreign language gibberish.