RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 21, 2019 at 4:58 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 4:58 pm by Belacqua.)
(March 21, 2019 at 8:47 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: all it gets you to is a prime mover. What does that tell us about a god? Nothing. It’s generic deism at best.
That's right. The Aristotelian argument is for a Prime Mover. If a Christian wants to say any more about it, they have to have different arguments. That's standard.
It isn't deism, though. In deism, God makes the world and goes away. In the Aristotelian Thomist system God sustains the world in being at every moment.
Quote:Wrong. I am offering you the opportunity to present a different metaphysical commitment; an alternative method to the scientific method for information and fact-gathering about a claim (“god exists.”), and defend its reliability and accuracy.
So far, you have done everything except that, lol.
No, I'm right in saying that this is your metaphysical commitment. A belief that only science-type evidence gives evidence for the world is a metaphysical belief.
As for your kind offer, I have said that logical arguments are sometimes persuasive in showing what must be true. I know you reject this; others don't.