@Ryft
From what I remember of theism, logic/reason is grounded in God. God then is the absolute standard of truth and from this one might conclude that absolute laws of logic exist because they reflect the absolute nature of God.
What I don't understand though is why one cannot say that the cosmos has intrinsic objective laws? The objective laws of logic exist by being a reflection of the nature of the objective universe. Why does it seem to you that only in God one can have an absolute standard of truth from which logic reflects? What does God provide that the universe by itself doesn't in other words?
From what I remember of theism, logic/reason is grounded in God. God then is the absolute standard of truth and from this one might conclude that absolute laws of logic exist because they reflect the absolute nature of God.
What I don't understand though is why one cannot say that the cosmos has intrinsic objective laws? The objective laws of logic exist by being a reflection of the nature of the objective universe. Why does it seem to you that only in God one can have an absolute standard of truth from which logic reflects? What does God provide that the universe by itself doesn't in other words?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
