RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
November 1, 2021 at 10:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2021 at 10:50 pm by R00tKiT.)
(November 1, 2021 at 10:29 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Maybe it is possible for me to precede my mothers existence..but I don't need to know that yay or nay to know my mother exists or persuasively and competently argue for her existence.. So too, if there's a god..there's a god regardless of what the case with causality turns out to be and regardless of whether that god or gods had any relation to it such as the one you conceive for your own.
Causality being valid doesn't suggest or imply anything about gods..and if you want to argue for some gods..you're probably going to have pick something that does. Doesn't that make sense?
No, it really doesn't make any sense.....
You can basically say the same thing about any argument about anything. Sure, an argument doesn't introduce things into existence... Clearly, an argument is directed to the opponent who disagrees with you on some given assertion, not to the object of the argument....
A psychiatrist arguing with a psychotic patient about the existence of external reality is clearly irrelevant to the latter's existence... it's still a useful argument because the patient simply rejects this trivial matter..
Oh, and no, you can't precede your mother's existence... Thank God causality works.