(September 4, 2012 at 11:33 am)stephenmills1000 Wrote: None of these possibilities however, necessarily go anywhere to refute the possibility of God's existence.Why should they, there's no need.
Quote: God would be an unemobodied mind or consciousness.Why? Because that's what your fairy tales have led you to believe? Well excuse me for being entirely unimpressed with that.
Quote: It has no "parts" or "pieces," so you wouldn't get any more simple than that I presume. This does not preclude God's thoughts and ideas- the functions of the mind- from being complex themselves.Yet, as just a couple of simple examples should have made clear, they are not required to be so to get the ball rolling, nor is such a cause required to even have thoughts or ideas.
Quote:But if one does not want to concede the argument, fair enough. In getting back to the matter at hand, in what then, if anything ought we base our morality in, if not God?-If not god- doesn't even get consideration at this point. Perhaps it could have; if religious folks had devised better gods for themselves, but alas, they did not. I'd take waffle flavored morality over god flavored morality at this point. At least when pressed, the wafflist can point to the damn waffle.
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