RE: "IF" there was a God....
August 15, 2013 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2013 at 11:18 am by Jackalope.)
(August 15, 2013 at 1:19 am)Undeceived Wrote:(August 15, 2013 at 1:08 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You asserted that you had to believe in one or the other, which is false. You can believe in neither, absent justification.
Okay, I get it. You were referring to the "you believe" part. But the framework of my dichotomy still stands. If you intend to pursue logic toward an answer, you must choose either infinity or an uncaused cause.
If I was interested in constructing sound arguments whose validity is unknown, yeah I'd have to choose *something*. The point of such exercises in mental masturbationis a bit of a mystery - an argument dependent on a vary large indeterminate IF doesn't hold any explanatory power until that IF is resolved.
I do see the value in such exercises - but not in picking one unknown IF over another. Ignoring some of the possibilities (or that there might be choices currently unknown to us) isn't particularly intellectually honest, IMO.
Put mor succinctly, I may have to choose one or the other for the sake of argument, but I don't have to build a worldview around either.
