The argument from truth

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Max_kolbe posted a link to this site that has 20 arguments for god. link here
http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics-more/2...nce.htm#11
So this is the one I felt like knocking down the most as I haven't heard it before

This argument is closely related to the argument from consciousness. It comes mainly from Augustine.

Our limited minds can discover eternal truths about being.
Truth properly resides in a mind.

Does truth properly reside in a mind? this seems a pretty bare assertion to me. I would actually make the argument that there is one absolute truth, and that is there are no absolute truths save that one because you can not demonstrate reality is real and thus you are forced to make three base assumptions : Reality is real, I can learn about reality, and prediction making models are better then none predictive ones.

But the human mind is not eternal.
Therefore there must exist an eternal mind in which these truths reside.

There is only one absolute truth as I just demonstrate, and It does not require a eternal mind to hold, all it requires is that something is thinking in my stead, by it me or what have you. You could say god is think through all of us, but in the e nd that assertion is no better then me assertioning that your actually a brain in a jar and we are a crazy hallucination.

This proof might appeal to someone who shares a Platonic view of knowledge—who, for example, believes that there are Eternal Intelligible Forms which are present to the mind in every act of knowledge. Given that view, it is a very short step to see these Eternal Forms as properly existing within an Eternal Mind. And there is a good deal to be said for this. But that is just the problem. There is too much about the theory of knowledge that needs to be said before this could work as a persuasive demonstration.

I would like to applaud the honesty of the author at that, however I could make another objection to that as well. We can now using instruments, detect human thoughts in the form of chemical and electrical impulses, and every thought we have ever recorded is in a brain and all brains are finite, that we have observed, with no evidence to the contrary and we have a good deal of evidence that there is no external part of a human brain. The exception is literature of course which could theoretically exist eternally, but as we can see every piece of literature we have is product of a human mind with zero evidence to the contrary.