(April 10, 2018 at 10:07 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(April 9, 2018 at 2:01 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Their arguments normally consist of.
"without god how do you explain.." morals, matter, the universe, justice, laws of physics, beauty love or some other such thing.
And the atheist position is usually "it just is". It really boils down to the the Principle of Sufficient Reason. If you're going to debate a generic "theist" then you need sufficient reason to dismiss sufficient reason :-)
That said, a basic principle of debating is to fully understand the arguments of your opponent to the point of being able to defend them yourself. If you're asking the question then you probably are not prepared for a debate.
But theists never say HOW god is supposed to be responsible for anything, it just "IS".
There is often a scientific answer or at least viable idea that explains the thing they propose is god, but to the theist just wants to believe.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.