RE: The Modal Ontological Argument - Without Modal Logic
February 15, 2014 at 7:15 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2014 at 7:16 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 14, 2014 at 12:55 am)Rational AKD Wrote: sure.
1. he is an omnipotent, omniscient, morally perfect immaterial mind.
Besides in these fallacious logical 'proofs', name one instance of a mind that exists absent a physical brain.
Please produce just one that actually manifests in reality.
On a more general subject, does anyone know anyone that has ever been convinced that a god exists based purely on one of these logical proofs?
Were you an atheist until someone posited this argument to you? Or any of the other fallacious arguments (Teleological, Cosmological, the truly inane TAG argument, etc)?
Just curious...
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
