RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 28, 2012 at 4:55 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2012 at 4:55 pm by Kirbmarc.)
Quote:Something cannot arise from other, because then you could have a giraffe spring from a rock. Anything could arise from anything.
This is a non-sequitur. You jump from "something can arise from something else" to "anything can arise from anything" in one big fell swoop. Those two sentences are not logically equivalent, no more than the sentence "some animals are giraffes" is equivalent to the the sentence "all animals are giraffes".