(April 18, 2013 at 5:40 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Well if you’re unwilling to defend your own position
What position might that be? I'm waiting for you to support yours. I have presented none.
(April 18, 2013 at 5:40 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:Quote: That's quite the weighty claim. Looking only at the first sentence, you've got quite the task ahead of you:
Not really.
Quote: 1) The Biblical conceptual scheme and view of reality is logically cogent and consistent.
Yup.
So demonstrate that why this is so. Your argument hinges upon this proposition, and you've provided no justification to suppose that it is so. The soundness of your argument depends upon it. The ball is still in your court.
Quote: 2) All extant or possible non-Biblical claims are necessarily not logically cogent and consistent.
That’s not actually what I said, but you know that. I said that they always reduce to absurdity.
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No, that is precisely what you said when you said this:
(April 16, 2013 at 5:17 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: only the Biblical conceptual scheme and view of reality is logically cogent and consistent.
Your use of 'only' implies that all others are not.
All. Not mine. Not ones with features in common with mine. All of them - extant and possible.
The rest of your TL;DR screed looked suspiciously like a smokescreen intended to distract from the basic fact that you did not provide any justification for point 1) above.
You don't get to assert point 1) and then move on as if you work were done. We can move on in this discussion once you've provided justification for that claim, otherwise, this discussion is dead on arrival.
