RE: Christianity vs Atheism
October 30, 2013 at 12:24 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2013 at 12:33 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(October 29, 2013 at 11:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(October 29, 2013 at 10:36 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: 4. Balant design flaws in human anatomy ....the fact that we use one tube for eating and breathing.That's not a flaw. If you couldn't breath through your mouth, you'd die from nasal congestion.
Oh, Chad. Thousands die each year from accidentally inhaling their food, particularly children. It's normal for animals to be able to breath through either their mouth or their nose, we're not special in that regard. We're special in regard to having our windpipe and esophagus at the same physical level with only a flap of skin to control which passage has air going down it and which passage has food going down it. It is physically impossible for most animals to get food stuck in their windpipe unless they snorted it through their nose.
(October 29, 2013 at 11:32 pm)Informative2016 Wrote: Anselm, one of the GREATEST Philosophical thinkers stated my first claim. Hence,by thinking of God, you've already acknowledged Him, you can choose to deny Him in your life, but you cannot deny the fact that God does no exist, no one can. How does this make someone dishonest? And I apologize that there are smarter people than you.
Anselm was pretty clever, it's not his fault we've had almost a thousand more years to think over his arguments than he had. But I'm pretty sure he never said that if you think of God you must believe in God. I'd be happy to be educated differently if you can quote him and source it.
It seems to me that you are getting his Ontological Argument a bit wrong. He says that God must exist because he is the greatest being that can be conceived and a being that exists in reality is greater than one that only exists in the mind. I don't think he said anything about people being unable not to believe in God once they've thought of him.