(June 12, 2015 at 7:51 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Okay. It is unfalsifiable. Now, we can walk across campus to the philosophy building where discussions about the existence of God are properly held.
Because you can demonstrate the existence of something just by thinking about it really hard?

I don't mean to disparage philosophy, I took philosophy courses all through high school and college as electives, hell, I minored in philosophy, but when it comes to matters of objectively real entities, philosophy is an inappropriate avenue of discourse, where it doesn't contain referents to equally objective real world facts... which you've already said cannot be used to demonstrate the existence of god, because he's a spirit being. Also, you did that without ever demonstrating the existence of spirits of any kind, so you're skipping an important few steps there, philosophically speaking.
Quote: Thanks for bringing all of this to my attention. I retract the use of that particular paper.
Holy crap. You're the first christian I've ever had this discussion with that has actually admitted the error. Even William Lane Craig wouldn't admit that error, when one of the writers of the paper was literally introduced, right in front of him, to say that his interpretation of the findings was wrong; he just sputtered something about that being Guth's personal opinion and then continued on as if nothing had happened, it really is something worth seeing.
Good job you: you now rank above William Lane Craig on my list of apologists.

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