Stuart T. Doyle – Uncommon Descent

Ethics Intelligent Design Mind Naturalism

Skeptic argues free will is real

We don’t usually hear skeptics arguing FOR free will. What’s changed?

RAM Querius, A lot of words in your reply. (And, of course, I've heard all of it before. I used to... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus CR, we may not know everything about a designer, especially a contingent being designer, but one thing we do know.... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes CR @ So, it’s well adapted for the purpose of designing bacterium. A designer is "adapted" by who? And whose... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist Consciousness, the free rational person, the intelligent designer, cannot be explained by mindless physical stuff. Already addressed. "We don't know... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
asauber Jerry, ID does have something to do with religion in the sense that everyone (literally) has religious views about their... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus CR, how you love loaded terms. By obvious definition, a successful designer is CAPABLE of carrying out said design. Reginald... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry I bought the book and it is expensive, $29 for kindle version. It has from what I can see nothing... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus F/N: Observe, Willard and heirs: To have knowledge in the dispositional sense—where you know things you are not necessarily thinking... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist … that will not change the point that the relevant information, knowledge, design decisions, system architecture etc would have been... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus Origenes, reduction of rational, intuitive, imaginative and creative thought to computation on a substrate fails. Not least, as computation is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus CR, why not do an in page search for say, "in the intelligence"? You will find for example 302: As... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes KF @416 … the underlying incoherence is dismissiveness to the observed and/or experienced. Once self evident first truths are denied,... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus CR, the FIRST -- branch on which we all sit [so of first principle character] -- fact of experience is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus L&FP, 67: So-called “critical rationalism” and the blunder of denying [defeat-able] warrant for knowledge – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist @KF Drumbeat repetition of an answered assertion, pretending that it was not answered repeatedly. Ok, then which comment(s)? Please quote... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist If consciousness is fundamental and cannot be explained by something else, then this is where we must base our explanations... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus Origenes, the underlying incoherence is dismissiveness to the observed and/or experienced. Once self evident first truths are denied, chaos is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist I wrote… If the recipe for a bacterium is one of these entities that exhibit reliable signs of design, and... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry I do not like to discuss religion here because ID has nothing to do with religion but an interesting new... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus CR, do you understand what you clipped? Notice, ". . . A class of machine we have analysed since 1948,... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes CR @405 First, if conciseness cannot be explained, then it’s unclear how this reflects any more of an explanation for... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...