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RE: Question for Atheists

January 31, 2014 at 7:10 pm

(January 31, 2014 at 2:26 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Some atheists display cognitive dissonance about meaning and purpose. On the one hand they insist that the natural world has no teleological properties. Then they turn around and claim their lives can still have significance, thereby inserting teleology back into reality.

I realize you don't normally think this way, so I'm just posing a hypothetical. If minds are a property of matter, is it still not possible for those minds, made of matter, to create purpose for things, solely as a function of their material mind's ability to conceive of something as "being for" something else? Or, are you insisting that the only way a mind can create extra-mundane purpose is if it is immaterial? Is it necessary for the matter which makes up mind be soul-stuff to make purpose or meaning "ex nihilo" ?

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