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Precursor of Atheism: Causal Closure
May 11, 2014 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2014 at 12:37 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
The thesis of causal closure is that every physical effect is fixes by a fully physical prior history.
In nearly every thread, I notice that atheistic positions can be traced back to either an explicit philosophical commitment or tacit acceptance of causal closure. It makes me wonder, how many atheists of our community subscribe to the thesis of causal closure.
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RE: Precursor of Atheism: Causal Closure
May 11, 2014 at 12:37 pm
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I've never heard the term casual closure. As far as physical history goes, Many things once called magic have been found to come from natural causes. The more we know, the more we understand without using magic to explain it.
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RE: Precursor of Atheism: Causal Closure
May 11, 2014 at 1:29 pm
The only thing that makes me an atheist is that I haven't seen enough evidence provided for the existence of a divine being.
That's it.
Everything else is incidental.
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RE: Precursor of Atheism: Causal Closure
May 11, 2014 at 4:57 pm
I'm so unfamiliar with the word causal that I read it as casual. Or maybe I made a typo, and I really am familiar with the word causal.
I'll go with whichever one leaves me with more dignity.
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RE: Precursor of Atheism: Causal Closure
May 11, 2014 at 5:00 pm
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