RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
February 10, 2015 at 2:49 am
(February 9, 2015 at 5:02 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Each side of the Pyramid of Giza, three dots on a paper, and a piece of spanakopita all, to various degrees of exactness and completeness, embody the idea of a triangle. By the process of abstraction, people strip away the unessential features of particular things to recognize the universal ideas that a group of objects share. In order to have the idea of a pattern, the pattern must, in some way, already be present.
Yes, and circles are circles, and squares are squares. Lines run from one point to another. Alternate interior angles of two parallel lines transsected by a third are congruent. Daisies have five petals. Mammals have four limbs.
The fact that humans can observe patterns is strong evidence that humans observe patterns. God need not apply.