(December 3, 2020 at 10:32 am)Klorophyll Wrote: No,pal. The first premise is unsound, by the way. The second premise is unprovable in the atheist's worldview - only he, one human being, can say of himself he exists. I am afraid I will insist on the problem of other minds, since it clearly undermines the atheist's tendency to demand the kind of evidence for god he wouldn't demand in other situations of equal importance.
Ther agument actually goes like this:
1. One is certain other minds exists, despite the latter being subject to debate and cannot be formally proven.
2. It can be shown that the existence of God is based on the same analogy, however weak it is, that leads to the existence of other minds.
3. Therefore, if one rejects the existence of god, one rejects other minds. Otherwise, he will have a fundamentally dishonest position.
Let me get this straight: You claim that the hypothesis that God exists is based on the agreement that other minds exist, that it's an analogy, that it may be weak; and your conclusion it that if someone doesn't think a disembodied mind exists they must think embodied minds don't exist either; and not only that but it's fundamentally dishonest to accept that embodied minds exist if you don't also accept that at least one disembodied mind that designed and created the universe also exists?
Are you sure you want to stick with that?
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
