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To: CottShop
The proofs are well known and incontrovertible. But you can't make someone believe what he doesn't want to believe. Disbelief in God makes a libertine lifestyle easier to rationalize.
4 posted on 04/11/2008 12:29:49 PM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Aquinasfan

How do you know that your deity is the correct one?


8 posted on 04/11/2008 12:31:40 PM PDT by tokenatheist (Can I play with madness?)
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To: Aquinasfan

Just followed that link you put up and if you really believe that guy then your system of epistemology is really strange.

His first two points are fine, his third and fourth are not.

“Third, there is the question of whether we have a reason for our knowledge. We can know some things without being able to lead others to that knowledge by reasons. Many Christians think God’s existence is like that.”

This is otherwise as “proof my by say so”. It does have legitimacy, hell we use it in courts all the time...but we also realize that by itself it is not proof. Saying that you saw the guy who raped her is no where near as strong as DNA for example.

He’s also right again on is 5th point that philosophical proofs can be as good as scientific proofs but he wasn’t talking about philosophy, he was talking about the existence of some intelligent entity.


24 posted on 04/11/2008 2:23:21 PM PDT by Raymann
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To: Aquinasfan

The greatest trick the devil ever played was to convince man he doesn’t exist.


35 posted on 04/11/2008 3:35:20 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (A Lesser Evil Is Still Evil.)
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