RE: Are Theists Illogical for Believing in God?
June 12, 2010 at 11:00 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2010 at 11:07 pm by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
just because something contradicts 'reality' doesn't mean it's illogical. (the whole point of this post was to illustrate that just because some of the premises believed by theists are contradictory to science, they are still logically deducing a conclusion from these premises. an argument can be logical but not true.
an electron = electron even if it has wave-particle behavior. Remember spherical triangles. There is such a thing we call spherical triangles but they aren't strictly (or the triangles we refer to in Euclidean geometry) triangles or spherical; they are in their own category. Considering the nature of electrons we could say, as in the way we categorize spherical triangles, 'electrons aren't strictly waves or particles'. Saying that an electron has a dual nature is not the same as saying that 'something exists and doesn't exist at the same time' which is paradoxical or illogical. in plain English electron ≠ electron means 'electron is not electron' doesn't make sense, even in its dual nature, huh?
an electron = electron even if it has wave-particle behavior. Remember spherical triangles. There is such a thing we call spherical triangles but they aren't strictly (or the triangles we refer to in Euclidean geometry) triangles or spherical; they are in their own category. Considering the nature of electrons we could say, as in the way we categorize spherical triangles, 'electrons aren't strictly waves or particles'. Saying that an electron has a dual nature is not the same as saying that 'something exists and doesn't exist at the same time' which is paradoxical or illogical. in plain English electron ≠ electron means 'electron is not electron' doesn't make sense, even in its dual nature, huh?
