RE: Is god axiomatic?
November 18, 2013 at 9:38 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2013 at 9:39 pm by Ronga.)
(November 18, 2013 at 8:22 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: No. I don't take Plantingan reformed epistemology too seriously. It all ends up at Agrippa's Trilemma. Which all ends up getting down to the Reformed Epistemologist - if they're honest and not dicks like Plantinga & Craig - to saying that theism and atheism have to be admitted as being equally rational to to them.
You have to be very careful what you take as an axiom, and what you mean when you take on that axion, i.e Are you accepting it as an ontological truth or methodologically useful? God doesn't seem to me to be either self-evidently extant nor explanatorily useful (because it can "explain" ANYTHING), and there are very good reasons to reject it.
I know evolution is true, based on evidence. So i don't believe religion is true, or atleast it's not correct to my conclusion when seeing the evidence of fossils, head skulls etc.
But was more using this theory as an hypothesis.
With the difference between this world and the unknown world, in which, "The unknown" which we have no knowledge about?. And that may have the assumption for God, the unknown basically
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But "axiom" was refered to as as one who only needs faith, because that is how faith works. If you believe it to be true, then for that person it is true. But there is a difference between faith and what is real.
So basically, you don't need to have evidence in faith, because religion don't ask that of you. So that's just belief
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I don't know if that helps, but my conclusion so far.