RE: From atheism to tentative agnosticism
July 2, 2013 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2013 at 8:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 2, 2013 at 7:43 pm)Inigo Wrote: But note, I do not claim - and I have been explicit about this - that the reports of our moral sense establish the existence of a god, rather they constitute some evidence - defeasible evidence - for the existence of a god.
They do not even amount to this, unless you can tie the two together, which you have not yet been able to do.
I'm feeling generous, what either formulation is missing is an assertion that amounts to "a god is an agent capable of such instruction/ a god is the only agent capable of such instruction". Not that either would redeem the argument, mind you - but because otherwise (without such inclusion) one can give you the argument whole cloth and it won't have anything to say about gods.
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