(September 27, 2014 at 6:03 pm)genkaus Wrote: One would be genuine thought problems that require rigorous examinations and broadened ways of thinking that could result in novel applications…Other category, like finding reasons to believe in god,… keep popping up because people want to use them to justify their preconceived ideas even if they have been shown to be fallacious.To my mind, establishing and building upon a foundation of absolutes is a highly practical endeavor. I think you have the order reversed. Some people search for absolutes and it just so happens that the resulting necessary truths support the classical notions about God.
In my own case, as a former atheist, I didn’t set out to justify a belief in God. Instead what I saw is that fully naturalistic philosophies lead away from, rather than toward, absolutes (nominalism and conceptualism come to mind). In doing so doing, they undermine themselves and with them the possibility of knowledge.
