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Showing posts with label critical thinking. Show all posts
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Good critique of TAG (and how I predict Sye would respond)
Here's a summary of some of my problems with TAG.
However good skepticism is skeptical of itself so I'll put on my presup hat to see how Sye would respond.
There are 2 question wrapped up when Sye ask atheists to "account for logic".
The ontic question and the epistemic question. Sye's answer to the ontic question is that they are reflections of the mind of God. He answers to the epistemic question by saying God has revealed these laws to him in a way he can be certain of them.
*puts on presup hat*
TheoreticBS answers the ontic question by calling them "necessary pre-conditions of existence"ie every object that exists follows these laws by virtue of the fact that it exists. However he is unable to answer the epistemic question,, but he claims Christians cannot do it either. He question-begs by not considering the option that God could reveal it to Sye.
Then he turns around and says presups should account for God.I'm thinking of Sye saying that God is accounted for "by the impossibility of the contrary".If God didn't exist then it would be impossible to be certain of logic and nothing could be accounted for.
*takes off presup hat*
Do you think I did an accurate represntation of Sye's argument?
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Real Questions Atheists Should Answer
Whenever a Christian asks atheists a series of questions intended to stump, all the questions turn out to be rather shallow. For example: "if humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" We all had fun answering Ray's questions, now let's see how you fare amongst these inquiries.
1) How can there be something instead of nothing? (Not why, but how)?
2) You know you exist (I think therefore I am), but how can you be sure others exist?
3) Can an objective reality truly exist in an existence interpreted or conjured by the mind?
4) How can evolutionary theory account for pre-cellular organic material mutating into stable organisms given the fragile nature of nucleic acids?
5) If all possibilities occur in a quantum universe, will you ever die?
6) What do you believe is the biological basis for consciousness?
7) What is humanity's ultimate place in the universe millions of not billions of years from now?
8) Knowledge can be derived from a near infinite number of sources. Why do atheists tend to gravitate toward scientific reasoning? How can you ever be sure scientific reasoning is the best or only way to address a problem?
9) Why haven't we found intelligent life outside of the solar system yet?
10) Which came first, thought or intelligence?
------ EDIT ------
"Please don't answer "yes" or "no." Explain why.
I'm not going to give you definitions. I purposefully did not so you would have to figure things out like the meaning of 'intelligence' for yourself."
1) How can there be something instead of nothing? (Not why, but how)?
2) You know you exist (I think therefore I am), but how can you be sure others exist?
3) Can an objective reality truly exist in an existence interpreted or conjured by the mind?
4) How can evolutionary theory account for pre-cellular organic material mutating into stable organisms given the fragile nature of nucleic acids?
5) If all possibilities occur in a quantum universe, will you ever die?
6) What do you believe is the biological basis for consciousness?
7) What is humanity's ultimate place in the universe millions of not billions of years from now?
8) Knowledge can be derived from a near infinite number of sources. Why do atheists tend to gravitate toward scientific reasoning? How can you ever be sure scientific reasoning is the best or only way to address a problem?
9) Why haven't we found intelligent life outside of the solar system yet?
10) Which came first, thought or intelligence?
------ EDIT ------
"Please don't answer "yes" or "no." Explain why.
I'm not going to give you definitions. I purposefully did not so you would have to figure things out like the meaning of 'intelligence' for yourself."
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