James A. Lindsay – Uncommon Descent

Atheism Intelligent Design Naturalism

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Viola Lee The statement about the universe being eternal must be, I think, in reference to some larger meta-universe of which our... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 this is so obviously nonsense. Maybe to you it's obviously nonsense. That doesn't mean anything besides your own inability to... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
AnimatedDust PM1 @ 68: ...brute fact that the universe is eternal. I bet there aren't five atheist astrophysicists who would agree... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @263 PM1, Marx is simply trying to discredit his critics as class conditioned, but of course HIS reasoning is science.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry it is a brute fact that the universe is eternal this is so obviously nonsense. Another example of specious thinking.... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Origenes PM1@ 262 The suggestion that Darwin’s epistemology is self-defeating only works by assigning to him commitments that he explicitly disavows.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry Thanks to Animated Dust. Just ordered Os Guinness’s book, “ Time For Truth” In postmodern society, truth no longer exists... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @68 However, as I pointed out @ 52, to me, the fundamental problem with the Christian God (I’m not familiar... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus Origenes, yup. A clue as to what is going on. KF – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, Marx is simply trying to discredit his critics as class conditioned, but of course HIS reasoning is science. See... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 I'm reluctant to get into yet another go-around about Marx or Marxism. All I'll say (for now) is that it's... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes KF @259 It seems that Darwin's horrid doubt about the human mind ONLY comes up when things point to intelligent... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
AnimatedDust CD @ 58: That question is answered very early in the first chapter of Genesis. The short answer is because... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry but why he needed to create it in the first place But He did! So deal with that. Not make... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin Belfast/58 The qualitative difference, then, between an Abrahamic God, and a universal intelligence, or spirit, or force which runs the... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
AnimatedDust Jerry @ 65: Well said. Either we conform our desires to the truth, or we conform the truth to our... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @58 Thanks, that is a helpful exegesis of Spinoza's position. I would add a few further points, hopefully this clarifies... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry But demanding that scientists prove the unguided OoL by producing life in a lab certainly speaks volumes about the reasoning... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB Ori: Ted is made by God, so, Ted is a secondary cause. God is the necessary/sufficient cause of the... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
kairosfocus Origenes, PM1 is trying to put a wall of partition between convictions, intuition, reasoning and arguing. This may well reflect... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PPS, well do I remember the advice that when one gets truly stuck on a geometry problem, take a break,... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...