(December 24, 2011 at 3:10 pm)Perhaps Wrote: Perhaps if you would take the time to read what I said, it would not appear to be babbling.I have mate. You're not making any sense. You and amkerman both abused Rhythm's politeness and patience by going completely off the rails. You made a ridiculous assertion that "Assumption is the root of everything. There is nothing objective, nothing true. We simply assume." which is nonsense.
For example, I do not assume I'm going to die someday. Death is something that is true, something we've all seen and/or experienced in some way or other. It is a biological fact, not a proposition. Then to prove a "point" you descended into a childish infinite regress argument.
You criticise science, but you see, that's the wonderful thing about science is its repeatability and how it thrives on criticism to refine itself. The scientific method is not perfect, no one said it was, but its the single, most useful tool we have for understanding our reality and discerning fact from fantasy. It does not make assumptions, it makes intelligible predications and calculations based on rigorous evidence and any available data regarding the phenomena in question. That's what makes it reliable, and why scientists are worth paying attention to, rather than philosophers wasting their lives working out the purpose of meaning when existence is void of meaning.
(December 24, 2011 at 5:54 pm)amkerman Wrote: Consciousness then is a universal force in the universe.You are making the fallacy of composition yet again.
Prove theism is logical AND provide evidence for consciousness existing outside a brain or shut up.