RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 13, 2019 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2019 at 2:25 pm by GrandizerII.)
Here's how I see it (yeah, still awake because sleeping disorder kicking in once again):
Evolution + natural selection ... + social conditioning ... + personal learning and experiences => the ability and the intuition to apprehend X as right/wrong
Something about X (X causes harm, X promotes flourishing, X fosters altruism) => stimulus signals received via sensory apparatus and sent as nervous impulses to the brain
Brain => biological computer-like organ processing the received signals and readying output responses and/or perceptions, based on inbuilt algorithms and heuristics, with differing mechanisms for differing signals
Perception about X => intuition or determination that X is right/wrong (this happens subconsciously, not consciously), sometimes associated with/followed by relatively strong emotional feelings (depending on the X and the brain's wirings)
Philosophical/intellectual motivations => consciously determining/speculating what really are the specific mechanisms involved and what standard(s)/philosophy(ies) were used
God? => No need for that
Evolution + natural selection ... + social conditioning ... + personal learning and experiences => the ability and the intuition to apprehend X as right/wrong
Something about X (X causes harm, X promotes flourishing, X fosters altruism) => stimulus signals received via sensory apparatus and sent as nervous impulses to the brain
Brain => biological computer-like organ processing the received signals and readying output responses and/or perceptions, based on inbuilt algorithms and heuristics, with differing mechanisms for differing signals
Perception about X => intuition or determination that X is right/wrong (this happens subconsciously, not consciously), sometimes associated with/followed by relatively strong emotional feelings (depending on the X and the brain's wirings)
Philosophical/intellectual motivations => consciously determining/speculating what really are the specific mechanisms involved and what standard(s)/philosophy(ies) were used
God? => No need for that