RE: A good case against God
July 3, 2012 at 2:59 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2012 at 3:01 am by Jeffonthenet.)
(July 3, 2012 at 2:39 am)Tempus Wrote: I don't make cases against things if there's no reason to believe them to begin with. There's plenty of good reasons not to accept popular arguments for gods though.
A statement that there is no reason to believe God exists is not an argument against God… it is just a statement which is the reason many people say that they don't know if God exists or not. Even if there were no good arguments for God, which I don't think I need to grant given arguments such as the Kalaam Cosmological argument and the Moral Argument (from the existence of objective moral values to God) it would not follow that there is no God. It may follow that, as theologians throughout history have maintained, that if we are to know God, we must know Him by personal experience or by intuition… however, how does this show that there is no God? Lastly, if you accept the existence of the external world or other, what philosophers call properly basic beliefs, you believe some things apart from arguments, and so, if God exists it could be possible to know God in the same way, apart from argument. For all of these reasons, I don't think your reply stands up to scrutiny.
