Griggsy

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

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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