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Originally posted by showmeproof

I'm a strong atheist and I would list as my reasons:
1) Physics
2) Chemistry
3) Evolution
4) Molecular Biology (which is the strongest evidence for #3)
5) Paleoanthropology
6) Anthropology
7) Consciousness/Mind being a product of an evolved organ; the brain
8) Ancient Near East history (specifically Late Bronze and Early Iron Age)
9) Skepticism and the wariness of ideas that define themselves as immune to scrutiny (especially 'revelation'...not

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Originally posted by Griggsy

Aquinas' fourth way is his ontological argument,which reifies the continuum betwixt qualities.
He maintains that God is that ultimate perfection of all good qualities. But reifiying the continuum thus fails as do all his five ways yet Feser refuses to rise above him, thereby exposing himself as lacking in philosophical judgment!
Aquinas' fifth way fails, as it is like a bowman who puts the bull's-eye around the arrow after it has landed. Carneades' atelic

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Originally posted by Griggsy

Other Cheek, they are the result of applying logical relations.That the inferences are valid gainsay that our minds are determined or that our minds are such as you so state.[The article on materialism in "The Encyclopedia of Philosophy.]. Again, trial and error play their role here. I have two other sources to further this anon.
Theists, in effect, use Malebranche's argument that when we hit the eight ball , we are the secondary cause while He is the primary, the one who really

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Originally posted by Griggsy

Per the Star Trek argument, should God be perfect, then He cannot be Himself as perfection would engender perfection [ Alvin Platinga errs about omni versus limited God.] Aquinas 's ontological argument from perfections errs in that he reifies a continuum. Things can have many degrees of being but his argument means no more than Anselm's and Descates's Again, definitin, postualtin and faith cannot instantiate Him!
At another thread here, I adumbrate about His

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Why do you find the supernatural even relevant to your life?
How does it explains matters that natural venues cannot? We naturalists do not find only science when truths but just rational ones based on empiricism. Rem B.Edwards faults us naturalisits for not considering the supernatural, which he claims covers the same territory as the natural, but it depends on convoluted ad oc asumptions whilst the presumption of naturalism just procedes from the sciences, ...

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