Do we expect too much from human reason?

[Thoughtage]

Thoutage, you're ignoring the rebuttals and just re-asserting your claims.

I'm unable to reply to every post by every poster. I keep re-explaining my position because it's obvious a number of posters are challenging me before reading the last nine posts I wrote on the subject. I do however realize they haven't heard this form of challenge before, and I'm trying to be patient.

The God claim is one made by humans, therefore human reason is entirely qualified to evaluate the claim.

Do you see how atheists will never even attempt to prove that human reason is qualified to do what they are trying to do with it? They just assume that it is, or assert that it is. They refuse to challenge their own chosen authority. This is why I call it a faith based operation.

It's not a matter of over-reaching by reason to say that a claim has failed to demonstrate its validity.

It is if the rules of human reason are not binding on the subject under discussion.

It may very well be an area that human reason is not equipped to truly understand, but that does not mean a claim made in that area cannot be dismissed.

Everyone is free to dismiss anything they want for any reason they want. I am not challenging their right to do so.

I'm only saying that everyone involved bears the burden of demonstrating that their chosen authority is qualified to credibly generate conclusions on this topic.

On top of that, reason has justified itself as a useful tool by its functionality.

This is the unexamined and unwarranted leap from the local scale to the infinite scale that defines atheism. I've explained this repeatedly above.

Take Rhythm's waffles example. I'm quite certain that waffles are not responsible for the universe's existence, and it's laughable for you to think that I would be unjustied in saying so.

Comparing waffles to the largest cultural inquiry in human history is not worth my time, apologies.

Given your insistence on maintaining this flawed position, it appears as if this is nothing more than an egoistical attempt to prove yourself to be on the high ground.

Please prove that the rules of human reason are binding on the arena you are making claims about.