(December 18, 2011 at 6:08 pm)amkerman Wrote: Darwinning it is not the job of a theist to convinnce you. Surely, no one is capable of convincing anyone else of anything at all if that person is not open to the possibility of being convinced or persuaded.
Uh, wait, what? I just told you how you could convince me. All you need to do is make it seem more probable that God does exist than that he does not.
(December 18, 2011 at 6:08 pm)amkerman Wrote: In my original post I clearly laid out why a belief in objective reality necessarily stems from a belief in something that would correctly be termed a monotheistic deity.
So "belief in God (implies) objective reality"?
I think you posed the opposite in your OP, but this way it makes more sense that I did not follow the argument.
(December 18, 2011 at 6:08 pm)amkerman Wrote: You have chosen to reject the idea of objective reality, which is completely rational, but illogical. It goes against all scientific achievement and human knowledge.
Again, you are seeing things that are not there. I said I was unable to know objective reality and you say I reject the idea of it entirely. Not the same thing.
Funny you should say that goes against all human knowledge, when my whole point was that it is theoretically impossible for humans to know (for certain) anything about objective reality. Funny in a sad, sad way.