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Recent content by enaidealukal

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    Creationism and kinds

    As pointed out, the reason why we know the Biblical narrative is literally false is because we do know how certain things work- and the Biblical narrative is absolutely inconsistent with all the data we have. We may not know how everything works, but we do know one thing- the Biblical narrative...
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    How can you deny the possibility of God's existence until..

    I'm not sure what that means, since beauty is merely a judgment- but it seems entirely possible that science could come to predict, for instance, what a given person will consider beautiful on a given instance, simply from understanding the cognitive processes which underlie our aesthetic...
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    How can you deny the possibility of God's existence until..

    This is basically a canard. There is no necessary limitation to what science could or could not study, aside from being constrained by the real; science most certainly can and does tell us about things like "beauty, morality, and worth" (evolutionary anthropology, psychology, etc etc- this are...
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    I thought you were talking about scientists, and not garbage pop-science journalism created for Nat Geo or the History Channel? :shrug: In any case, it would hardly be new for scientists to get in on the fill-gaps-of-science-with-God fun and games; but when they do so, they are not really...
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    Have you ever found a single bug in Islam?

    If you're asking whether there are any "bugs" in Islam, the answer is a rather obvious "yes"; Islam is a form of theism, and it asserts the existence of a god- a god with certain characteristics. Unfortunately, theism is unsound, and thus any theistic religion- Islam included- is essentially a...
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    This may be the funniest thing I've ever read.
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    Two hundred years ago, if you proposed a thought experiment of the things quantum physics describes, people would've told you they cannot happen. And yet, we now know they do. What we think can or cannot happen is not always true- thought experiments can be useful, but they are not actual...
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    Even if there were such a thing as an "infinity problem", this wouldn't apply to models such as the Hawking-Hartle proposal, as it is a model of a finite past. :facepalm: finite=\=infinite... pretty simple. So transcendent cause vs. past-eternal universe is a false dilemma. But there is...
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    Right; and it does not begin as the result of any "transcendent cause". In other words, your dichotomy of past-eternal universe vs. transcendent cause is a false dilemma, as there are other possibilities. Whether the model is accurate is not relevant- the point is merely that such a thing is...
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    INDISPUTABLE Rational Proof That God Exists (Or Existed)

    Unfortunately, since this is the only universe we've ever experienced, we don't know what the criteria for "looks like design" is for universes. We simply have no frame of reference. This is why saying that the universe "looks designed" doesn't really carry any force; we can just as easily, and...
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    It's also ironic that you lay the charge of "word games" at my door, since Craig is the one equivocating (which is, of course, par for the course) and playing a switcheroo with the term "absurd"; he is knowingly playing on the difference between the technical and the colloquial usage of this...
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    Wow, really? Who woulda thunk it, eh? Of course, the question remains whether the argument, true or false, is valid, or pertinent- and Craig's is neither; showing that an infinite collection would be weird (which is an entirely unsurprising result, even to those who believe that infinite...
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    Of course, because of this, the same objection which applied to Anselm's original ontological argument (Gaunilo's point about the perfect island) can be reformulated with respect to Plantinga's MOA: if the argument is sound, then it can be used to prove the existence of an arbitrarily indefinite...
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    I'm not necessarily saying it's false- Craig endeavors to show that infinities are weird, and counter-intuitive, and I agree with him, so far as that goes. But being weird or counter-intuitive is not the same thing as being logically absurd (self-contradictory), and in physics, being weird isn't...
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    The battle of evolution vs creationism

    Yeah, nice try- Nah. Ironic that you should make this accusation in a post where you are ignoring virtually everything though. You mean like this- This is pretty much what you've done here; you restate the claim, but call it "nonsensical"- this is not an argument. Um, yes, you did (you...
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