(March 24, 2013 at 12:45 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(March 24, 2013 at 12:38 am)jstrodel Wrote: Who defined the word proof? Have historians and paleontologists discovered an ancient religious text that defined the word proof? How did that happen?
Who invented the dictionary?
This is where I get to the issue of being a psuedo-intellectual. An intellectual would realize that the word proof has many different sense and is culturally defined and it varies context to context. Perhaps they would argue for one sense of proof, based on a thorough investigation of philosophy and science and religion and many other related issues. This would not be easy to do.
A psuedo-intellectual would understand the term proof to have some sort of fixed definition that refers to atheist apologetics.
I wish that I could disabuse you of your psuedo-intellectual atheism, but I can't if you won't admit it or defend it.
That sounds suspiciously like what someone might say when challenged to "prove it" when they in fact, could not do so.
That is true, it does sound like that, but it doesn't change the fact that it is true. Commonly, peoples beliefs coincide with motivations that would help them. The existence of this, however, is not sufficient to disprove the merits of a certain belief based on the motivation.
