RE: Proving the Bible is false in few words.
May 14, 2010 at 7:03 pm
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2010 at 7:07 pm by fr0d0.)
*shuffles along obediently to the new set of goalposts*
1. God has no business with explanatory values, ever.
2. or did happen <-- how did you eliminate this option?
3. it is necessarily beholden to the observer to accept or deny the claim. Which as I keep saying, is the whole point. It is also crucial that there's no sway on that choice empirically.
Perhaps you could translate that philosobabble into English and I'll do my best to answer. Or PM Arcanus and see if he's willing to discuss philosophy with you... he's conversant in it.
(May 14, 2010 at 4:52 pm)Caecilian Wrote: Okay, thats fine. No empirical evidence for god can ever be found, so if a given phenomenon has an explanation, there will always be a naturalistic explanation for it. The rest of my post is therefore unaffected. I'll repeat myself.No
It therefore follows that:
1. Anything that could be explained with reference to god, could be explained at least as well without reference to god. Thus 'god' has zero explanatory value.
2. 'Miracles' either didn't happen, or have a naturalistic explanation.
3. Following on from 2, the bible becomes a collection of myths.
1. God has no business with explanatory values, ever.
2. or did happen <-- how did you eliminate this option?
3. it is necessarily beholden to the observer to accept or deny the claim. Which as I keep saying, is the whole point. It is also crucial that there's no sway on that choice empirically.
(May 14, 2010 at 4:52 pm)Caecilian Wrote: All facts, including all phenomenal facts, are metaphysically necessitated by the microphysical facts. If P is a statement that reports all the microphysical facts and Q is a statement that reports all phenomenal facts...then:
(Entailment Thesis) P -> Q is metaphysically necessary.
Perhaps you could translate that philosobabble into English and I'll do my best to answer. Or PM Arcanus and see if he's willing to discuss philosophy with you... he's conversant in it.