RE: I am a Catholic, ask me a question!
August 6, 2009 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2009 at 12:40 pm by Jon Paul.)
(August 6, 2009 at 12:25 pm)chatpilot Wrote: The problem is that for there to be objective morality there has to be a source or object that supplies that morality in your case God so his existence is relevant to this discussion.Of course there has to be. God's existence is relevant to the epistemological and analytic argument only insofar as it is affirmed and integral in the epistemic structure of the Christian worldview, and unaffirmed and therefore nonintegrate in the epistemic structure of any atheistic worldview. It is not relevant in the sense of, the reasons for the worldview (which affirms Gods existence) coming about - or in other words, the evidence. All that is relevant is that the worldview really exists and that Gods existence is properly basic and integrate in the Christians worldview and epistemic structure; and not so in the atheists.
As to the purely logical and evidential debate of whether God exists or not, that debate already assumes a such thing as objective logical truth and demonstration to be possible. The epistemological argument shows that such objective logical truth necessitates the existence of God; otherwise it is futile and groundless and no debate can be had.
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