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Wait a second... I can see some potential value in this.
For example, Christopher Hitchens views on Christianity being used to define all Christians.
For the same reason you might like Lamb: 20,000,000 coyotes can't be wrong.I'm trying to learn more about evidence and philosophical arguments for the existence of God. I've looked at the popular arguments used by Christian apologists (including the Kalam argument by William Craig), but I'm still not really convinced that the traditional God of monotheism exists.
Can anyone provide me with some arguments or evidence that will change my mind?
Thank you.
For the same reason you might like Lamb: 20,000,000 coyotes can't be wrong.
All kidding aside, there can be no empirical evidence within the closed circuit of the universe. God is not inside - but is outside...and you can't go outside to prove it to yourself.
It is as if we were all born into a large room that no one had ever been or seen outside of, making no expert knowledge possible by those who could not possible confirm anything. Under those circumstances, the only way that it would even be possible to know the truth - is if the information came in...from the outside. But...if you were the guy who received the note that was passed under the door...everyone else would call you crazy. And if there was another person every so often down through history that received a similar message...and they began to write it down and put it in a book...and they called it their "bible" - that would just be crazy...2,000,000 coyote crazy!
And that explains your shortsighted perspective: you didn't finish reading the information about messages coming in from the outside.If you were trapped in that room, you would have no justifiable reason for believing anything about the world on the outside.
Belief in god is akin to making claims about the world outside that room that you can never demonstrate to be true. Therefore it's an inherently unjustified belief.
And that explains your shortsighted perspective: you didn't finish reading the information about messages coming in from the outside.
I happen to be a recipient of such information (from the outside). But I have no reason to justify what is self-justified already, to as many people as have also received it. The truth, on that grand scale, is also self-evident...no contest.I did read that part, however you have no possible way to justify the messages are accurate. Every message could be a lie about the outside world, and you have no way to know.
Therefore, it's still an inherently unjustified belief.
I happen to be a recipient of such information (from the outside). But I have no reason to justify what is self-justified already, to as many people as have also received it. The truth, on that grand scale, is also self-evident...no contest.
The only thing lacking here...is your own knowledge of it.
I already said: I am a recipient of knowledge for outside. As for how it is self-evident...it is just as I already said also: such knowledge out weighs all other (internal) knowledge to a point of no contest.How exactly is it self justified or self evident?
The fact a lot of people believe in something doesn't make it true. That's known as the argument from popularity fallacy.
Again, my justification is complete. It is your justification that is lacking - even if you do not know it. ... And forgive me, but you do not present yourself as someone who wants to take advise from someone who has been up ahead - but, rather, you seem to be stopped at this point on the journey and have decided to mock rather than press on.And your justification for claiming knowledge.
I already said: I am a recipient of knowledge for outside. As for how it is self-evident...it is just as I already said also: such knowledge out weighs all other (internal) knowledge to a point of no contest.
Again, my justification is complete. It is your justification that is lacking - even if you do not know it. ... And forgive me, but you do not present yourself as someone who wants to take advise from someone who has been up ahead - but, rather, you seem to be stopped at this point on the journey and have decided to mock rather than press on.
And that explains your shortsighted perspective: you didn't finish reading the information about messages coming in from the outside.
Good questions.How do you know your knowledge comes from the outside?
How do you know there even is an "outside"? Even that basic point has not been justified.
That is a fallacy...the same fallacy which I explained with the example of being inside and outside. And, it is not easy, but impossible to demonstrate the outside from the inside - except by example...which I have done.If you have good reasons to believe what you do, then it should be easy to demonstrate their truth. That's all I'm asking you to do.
Simple answer, or complex?Why would the reception of these messages be so selective and inconsistent?
This claim is in dire need of support.God is a reasonable explanation for what we are experiencing
-do you have another one?
-would like to hear it
Pure convenience. He can cherrypick as he wishes.Why would you think that one person's opinion represents all opinions?
Coincidently, there can be no empirical evidence for an imaginary world that exists only in your head.For the same reason you might like Lamb: 20,000,000 coyotes can't be wrong.
All kidding aside, there can be no empirical evidence within the closed circuit of the universe. God is not inside - but is outside...and you can't go outside to prove it to yourself.
For an explanation of basal assumptions and evidentialism, see the preview of Mitch Stokes's A Shot of Faith to the Head on Google Books.
Good questions.
Because I was taken outside and given the opportunity to look back.
That is a fallacy...the same fallacy which I explained with the example of being inside and outside. And, it is not easy, but impossible to demonstrate the outside from the inside - except by example...which I have done.
But there are plenty of examples: the internet is a good example. It is a completely "created" universe...without internal matter, but unbeknownst to all the little pixel characters...a cartoon rock landing on your head, hurts, bleeds real-to-life blood, but none of it even real.
But...if you were the guy who received the note that was passed under the door...everyone else would call you crazy. And if there was another person every so often down through history that received a similar message...and they began to write it down and put it in a book...and they called it their "bible" - that would just be crazy...20,000,000 coyote crazy!
Good questions.
Because I was taken outside and given the opportunity to look back.
That is a fallacy...the same fallacy which I explained with the example of being inside and outside. And, it is not easy, but impossible to demonstrate the outside from the inside - except by example...which I have done.
But there are plenty of examples: the internet is a good example. It is a completely "created" universe...without internal matter, but unbeknownst to all the little pixel characters...a cartoon rock landing on your head, hurts, bleeds real-to-life blood, but none of it even real.
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