Dear Resident Theists

[Longhorn]

This all is just fun, though. Play pretend. Ain't nobody gonna a priori nothing into existence. Shit just don't work that way.

I'd like to hear you try to prove that assertion without referencing some a priori principle.

Would you like to hear why Bigfoot must exist? I can prove he exists without any tangible evidence, by using half assed arguments. That makes him real.

[Pizza]

@ Theists
Are you arguing for something very much like a human or kind of, sort of like a human but not very much?

Merely arguing against atheism isn't enough, since the point of this thread was to show how you get from mere theism to religious theism. Better yet, how do you get from "kind of, sort of like a human but not very much" to "very much like a human?"

What are you theists arguing for? If not an anthropomorphic god then what? If god is indefinable or an indefinable "intelligence" then I don't see how arguments are helpful.

[Whateverist]

[Whateverist]

Common sense tells me that "we" are proof that life exists on "other" planets.
Common sense also tells me that the perceived universe was NOT created for our amusement and that we are not the centre of it!

Find your pet god somewhere else, he ain't here, stop looking, stop trying to justify his existence with even more absurd supernatural claims ...
It just makes you look like ignoramuses!

And we prefer the one we already have!

[Whateverist]

This all is just fun, though. Play pretend. Ain't nobody gonna a priori nothing into existence. Shit just don't work that way.

I'd like to hear you try to prove that assertion without referencing some a priori principle.

And no appeals to common sense either or inductive reasoning.  Always keep in mind that all of ones experience up to this very moment may have been the deceit of a great deceiver who would like nothing more than for you turn your back on nutty possibilities.  You're better than that.

[Ronkonkoma]

[Homeless Nutter]

[Whateverist]

^ Tedious. I suspect Lucanus meant a source for the list itself and its bibliography, unless you actually did all the research yourself. In which case, kudos to you. Kudos I say.

[robvalue]

OK Ronko, so you were just telling us some probabilities? How is it relevant to the discussion?

[Ronkonkoma]