RE: First order logic, set theory and God
December 4, 2018 at 9:10 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2018 at 9:10 am by Fake Messiah.)
(December 4, 2018 at 8:29 am)Belaqua Wrote: Rather than beginning with the fact that something needs to be explained, Aristotle began with very simple observable facts and built logically from there. We notice motion, we notice causality. Given these facts, where does the logic lead?
Where would it lead? To Zeus or to Big Bang. I mean after all Aristotle's gods have been debunked so why bother? Not to mention the despair of talking about the cosmic ideas that a man who had very primitive means to explore the world and thus had very primitive ideas about it. His explanation of gravity is that all bodies move toward their natural place and he also thought that heavier objects would fall faster than light ones - I mean he even failed to do the experiment.
Yeah, let's all go to the Aristotle to prove existence of god.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
