(July 31, 2024 at 10:05 pm)Belacqua Wrote: For example, do numbers exist?
Yes. There's a simple litmus test for this. Assume that all of humanity has extinguished itself in thermonuclear fire and that millions of years later raccoons have arisen as the new sentient species on this planet. Will they discover pi? Pythagorean geometry? Prime numbers? Yup. So those clearly exist independently of humanity.
Quote:God is more like a number or a concept than he is like a physical being.
While the raccoons will likely create their own gods to head up their organized superstition, Yahweh, Jesus, and Allah won't be making a second coming. The phenomenon of religious thinking is objectively real but no specific religion is.
Quote:Does justice exist?
Yup. Ask your raccoon overlords for further details but it's a necessary function of any society.
Why is it that only theologists and philosophers seem to have trouble figuring out objective reality?
