(January 21, 2010 at 5:39 pm)rjh4 Wrote: Well if you personally don’t start with first principles that at least you think are absolute and objectively true, then I don’t know why you have such a high regard for whatever worldview you hold such that you find mine so laughable.If you use this as an argument your implicit assumption is that only absolute truth can be a basis of any true statement. But you provide no absolute proof for the fact that your assumption of god is absolute. So you really are making a reproach to your self also.
The difference between the scientific approach that has build a vast consistent framework of interlinked pieces based onreproducible evidence and your skyhook god that is a vast fabulation floating in mid air is seen in what can be accomplished with it. Your god cures no diseases, heals no amputees, fights no viruses, does not supply the power to your home, did not invent a combustion engine, did not give us radio, telephone or wifi, did not improve crop, does not help the Haitians, did not invent the internet, provides no navigation, food or fuel, does not give us insight in the CO2-problem, did not tell us what fuels the sun, did not provide solar cells, and some zillion other things that science helped accomplish.
The score between reason and god fabulation now is a zillion to nill.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0