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To: fishtank

There are many things that defy naturalistic explanaition. Such as the existence of a finite nature, the objectivity of moral principles, the objectivity of reason, and the ability of people to experience nature and interact with it including making choices. None of these things we experienced so often we take them for granted can fit in a model that is saddled down with the arbitrary presumption of naturalistic materialism. While some forms of naturalism venture from materialism just far enough to admit the basic facts of these observations as if they were one off exceptions, I must reject them as silly stubbornness. If I just believe in giraffes and somebody showed me a documentary video with giraffes in it it would be very silly of me to just assume that the only part of the giraffes that existed were the outside of the animal facing the camera. Either I should make the case that the giraffes were some kind of computer simulated hoax or accept that they are likely to be full working animals with more to them then I can see.


6 posted on 10/06/2016 8:50:27 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Hating Islam is the natural consequence of caring about people in the Middle East, including Muslims)
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To: AndyTheBear

Yes.

Good explanation!


7 posted on 10/06/2016 9:06:26 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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