(November 5, 2021 at 2:33 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: I am showing you how some popular atheists get trivial things wrong. Do you agree/disagree with Krauss on his equivocation, for example....?
It is not an equivocation.
Physicists have a different definition within the context of physics, than philosophers and theologians have. And they make their definition clear before they use it.
And Krauss is not the first physicist to use the word in the same way, nor the only one.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.