(September 30, 2019 at 8:19 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote:(September 30, 2019 at 8:02 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Deism only avoids some of theism's intellectual problems. It does not avoid others. In the end it fails to address the question of why one should put up with it.I guess it depends on your perspective. While atheism doesn't put up any intellectual problems (because it doesn't really put up anything at all), naturalism does, and reductive or eliminative materialism do.
Naturalism validated itself with a unique track record that affords increased probability that its apparent intellectual leaps really coincides with an existent if as yet not fully articulated foundation in reality. Other approaches do not provide anything to suggest any of their leaps are nothing more than totally unfounded wishful fancy.
