RE: Thoughts on next video...
April 4, 2013 at 2:56 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 2:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not sure I understand how that establishes that any favor was granted, perhaps theres some way you could elaborate for me.
I think I've found a way to clarify my position in a way that gets the tone right btw:
Investing the universe or evolution, or god with something like "favor" is anthropomorphism -even if it were true.
As a human, referring to something like civilization as a justification for the above would be anthropocentrism - even if it were true.
(I mean, you could have pointed to anything, what makes civilization the most important thing, the thing that bears mention? Why not the beetles or the birds?)
The trouble I'm having, is that we're justifying anthropomorphism with anthropocentrism - not that doing this would make either false (though we have a pretty bad track record with both - which is why the terms are seen as derogatory) and I don't see why we have to add a deist god into the mix to do either (that's laying aside that I don;t agree with doing either).
I think I've found a way to clarify my position in a way that gets the tone right btw:
Investing the universe or evolution, or god with something like "favor" is anthropomorphism -even if it were true.
As a human, referring to something like civilization as a justification for the above would be anthropocentrism - even if it were true.
(I mean, you could have pointed to anything, what makes civilization the most important thing, the thing that bears mention? Why not the beetles or the birds?)
The trouble I'm having, is that we're justifying anthropomorphism with anthropocentrism - not that doing this would make either false (though we have a pretty bad track record with both - which is why the terms are seen as derogatory) and I don't see why we have to add a deist god into the mix to do either (that's laying aside that I don;t agree with doing either).
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