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  1. Eh?

    As arguments for God are secondary to belief in Him, why do you theists actually believe in Him? The arguments from happiness-purpose and from angst, suggest that you have a psychological need for Him rather than any arguments that push you to believe in HIm.
    What, however, are your arguments for Him?
  2. Arguments about God

    Quote Originally posted by Griggsy View Post
    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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  3. Arguments about God

    Quote Originally posted by Griggsy View Post
    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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  4. Why the supernatural?

    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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