RE: Atheism Undermines Knowledge
May 3, 2013 at 7:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2013 at 7:51 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 3, 2013 at 6:49 pm)pocaracas Wrote: ... loaded question. Please restate it in a valid manner.Nice dodge. As I recall the two questions were pretty straight forward. 1) Do you believe in the validity of inductive reasoning? 2) Are you an atheist?
(May 3, 2013 at 6:49 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Why do you assume there a reason to the perceived order of the Universe?Not exactly how I would put it. I would say the universe displays types of cause, final and formal, that do not already inhere to it. These types are necessary for the physical universe to manifest order. Thus final and formal causes are the reason behind the perceived order of the universe.
(May 3, 2013 at 6:49 pm)pocaracas Wrote: The Universe is the way it is, because it is the way it is...Once again, asserting this is a brute fact. You are avoiding the problem.
(May 3, 2013 at 6:49 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Apo has dissected the reasoning behind those physical constants and their impossibly narrow range in which we'd get a functioning Universe...This a not a fine-tuning argument. It's about the the need to assign final and formal causes to justify inductive reasoning.