RE: Do your beliefs imply a Necessary being exists?
August 9, 2012 at 7:11 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2012 at 7:15 pm by Cyberman.)
(August 9, 2012 at 6:43 pm)CliveStaples Wrote: ...what? Are you suggesting that if I can prove that X, Y, and Z entail that a necessary being exists, and you believe X, Y, and Z, that I've somehow done something dishonest ("heads I win, tails you lose")?
If I'm asked to declare upfront my beliefs on the existence or otherwise of X, Y and Z (à la page one of your survey) and you use your 'if' to define X, Y and Z into existence with the intention of railroading me into a logically contradictory position regarding X, Y and Z - then yes I am suggesting that.
And CD, you won't believe this but it was a toss-up between the pic I ending up using and the one you riposted with. True as I'm sat on this 'ere camel.
(August 9, 2012 at 6:54 pm)Annik Wrote: This "Necessary Being"... The definition could cover anything, even human. I can't even answer the first question because of this ambiguity. :/
Actually that's a very good point. As far as this survey is concerned, there has to be a Necessary Being... the person taking the survey.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
