(July 30, 2024 at 5:38 am)Sheldon Wrote: That collection of straw men doesn't seem to address anything in my post?Well, in my first point, what I mean is the book as written material and designed with specific form. Not talking about the content. The thing, which is book, that's what I mean. Quran, as a hardcopy of book (muslims will say The Mushaf of Quran), of course written and designed by human. But the content of writing is from God.
You still haven't answered my question, can you demonstrate any objective evidence that a deity exists, or that a deity is even possible? You also didn't address the fallacious reasoning I explained, that you used in your arguments?
1. A straw man fallacy since I never claimed otherwise, and this also contradicts your earlier claim that koran cannot be entirely human in origin, or is divinely written.
2. Straw man fallacy, since I never claimed otherwise.
3. I think the word begin is not apropos, for fairly obvious reasons, so I would say the universe that we currently observe has a point of origin explained in the scientific theory of the big bang. The second sentence is another straw man fallacy, as I have not claimed otherwise. The last sentence is pretty vague, scientific theories are broad explanations of naturally occurring phenomena, that are supported by a weight of objective evidence, and that have been subjected to experiment and test to confirm them, so it would be unreasonable to deny something that the evidence suggests is an irrefutable fact.
NB note that a scientific fact is just describing something science knows to be true, based on an overwhelming consensus among scientific experts in the related fields, and irrefutable in does not of course mean immutable, whilst the objective evidence cannot reasonably be denied, it remains open to critical scrutiny, as part of the methods of science demands that all ideas, no matter how well established, remain tentative in the light of new evidence, and thus open to continuous critical scrutiny. So this is the antithesis of faith based subjective religious beliefs, that claim to hold immutable and infallible truths.
I didn't mean to do straw man fallacy here. I just give examples that many causes of something, not necessarily need the empirical evidence to considered that it were true.