RE: Creationism
August 17, 2020 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2020 at 3:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You have a novel understanding of terms. OP comments on the god of creation needing a creator isn't a standard strawman, it's a question that anyone who proposes anything as the first in a series of causal or temporal relationships simply has to acknowledge, and address.
There are only two options for the proponent, concede that their argument denies it's own premises,or plead their way out to the detriment of the same.
Take gods entirely out of the field - why is it that contemporary philosophers haven't declared the universe or spacetime or a ham sandwich to be the ground of being™? Not because they don't fit the bill better than a ghost, but because these sorts of arguments are fundamentally insufficient. What some rando thought centuries ago is irrelevant, we're still not sure how to land an argument like this today.
There are only two options for the proponent, concede that their argument denies it's own premises,or plead their way out to the detriment of the same.
Take gods entirely out of the field - why is it that contemporary philosophers haven't declared the universe or spacetime or a ham sandwich to be the ground of being™? Not because they don't fit the bill better than a ghost, but because these sorts of arguments are fundamentally insufficient. What some rando thought centuries ago is irrelevant, we're still not sure how to land an argument like this today.
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