RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
October 4, 2021 at 6:19 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2021 at 6:20 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(October 4, 2021 at 5:53 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(October 4, 2021 at 5:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I'm unconcerned. I think that the vast weight of evidence to that effect allays any rational doubt.
The vast weight of evidence you're referring to only implies correlation. And I am not denying that people's beliefs are correlated with their parents'.
(October 4, 2021 at 5:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Any claim about anything made with reference to it's appearance is an empirical premise, as empirical premises refer to what we can observe.
The world either looks designed, or it does not look designed. You can either use an empirical premise, or deny any possibility of an empirical premise - but to do both simultaneously is self defeating, thus..incoherent.
I didn't deny anywhere the possibility of an empirical premise, I denied the possibility of empirical tests/investigations about a supernatural entity. This is not the same thing.
How did an immaterial “thing” design and create a physical world? I mean, this is your god after all. Since he was the The Cause. what was his mechanism of action?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.