RE: Proof and evidence will always equal Science
December 14, 2021 at 7:25 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2021 at 8:49 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(December 14, 2021 at 9:47 am)polymath257 Wrote: So, when talking about God(s), we have to ask where in this hierarchy such things appear. Are God(s) closer to 'existing' like chairs? Or closer to 'existing' like words in language? or like the number 2? or closer to being like Sherlock Holmes?
There is another 'closer to' option. The God of Classical theism may better be described as something more like the Principle of Non-Contradiction. Does the PNC exist? If so, based on what evidence? Or is it something from which we reason rather than to which we reason. Everyone has first priciples even if they are only tacitly aware of them. I am sincerely curoius...
Could many atheists defend their first principles using the same standard by which they judge theistic first principles?
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