(April 17, 2014 at 12:48 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(April 17, 2014 at 12:43 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: How can purely physical things and processes have any meaning at all? Ontological naturalism excludes both final and formal causes. Those exclusions make any form of intentionality impossible.
Secondly a life has meaning in the same way symbolic representations do. Words and pictures point to things other than themselves. Thus a person's life has meaning to the extent that it serves as a sign and symbol of something they value. The difference between atheists and believers is that atheists can only refer to proximate values whereas believers identify with transcendent or eternal values.
Translation: "I pretend the things I live for are extra special and magical, much better than the things you atheists live for, and so therefore they must be real and correct!"
Sorry Chad, the fact that you've injected a heaping helping of self-importance into your own beliefs isn't really a problem for anyone else.
Translation: I cannot present a coherent refutation so I'll paraphrase what was said in an insulting way.
