A fascinating concept, perfectly executed:
Hardly a relative theory.
Posted on 09/27/2009 3:38:59 PM PDT by NYer
The Bengals beat Pittsburgh. That’s all the proof I need.
“My point was that just because something can be defined as merely the absence of something else, doesn’t make the thing you are defining any less real.”
Actually, it does.
So, since darkness is not real, I guess you don’t turn on your headlights when you drive, eh?
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“So, since darkness is not real, I guess you don’t turn on your headlights when you drive, eh?”
I presume you mean at night.
Given the absence of light, I use my headlights to provide it.
If the phenomena of darkness is not real, but merely the absence of light, why do you require headlights to mitigate an imaginary condition?
“If the phenomena of darkness is not real, but merely the absence of light, why do you require headlights to mitigate an imaginary condition?”
The absence of light is not imaginary. It really is absent.
So there seems to be two possibilities - Everything came from something -OR - Everything came from nothing.
If there is no God, then why believe anything at all?
It might seem odd that the very characteristics which science defines as First Cause are the same as what theists have been describing as years as God but that is how it is.
Great video. It makes an interesting and thoughtful point.
Your previous statement implied that darkness, being defined by the absence of light, is therefore less real than light. If the abscence of light is real, then darkness, which is a description of that condition is real as well, eh?
Merkwurdige!
That little tyke would’ve been expelled in today’s public schools.
“I form the light and CREATE darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do ALL these things.”
—Isaiah 45:7
Which is what the video is supporting. Note that Isaiah 45:7 does not say this:
“I form the darkness and CREATE light, I bring disaster and create prosperity; I, the LORD, do ALL these things.”
“Your previous statement implied that darkness, being defined by the absence of light, is therefore less real than light. If the abscence of light is real, then darkness, which is a description of that condition is real as well, eh?”
No. Doesn’t follow at all.
Try this: try starting with the presumption that the absence of a thing is not a thing, and figure out why that is true. Then you can go back to the position that the absense of a thing is a thing, and possibly with the new insight figure out why that proposition is false.
Perhaps but odds favor him being put on Ritalin to keep him seated and quiet.
What an entertaining video! I believe St. Augustine defined “Evil” as ‘privatio boni’, i.e. absence/privation of Good. According to scholastic philosophy a ‘privatio’ can be predicated only of something which by nature exists. For example ‘blindness’ may be predicated of a man because it is in man’s nature to see. Since a stone cannot see, it’s lack of sight is not a ‘privatio’ because it is not in a stone’s nature to see. Therefore Evil may be predicated of creation in general as a ‘privatio’ because the transcendental nature of creation is Good, as well as True and One.
Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree. Darkness is quite a real phenomena, regardless of whether you define it by the absence of something else.
It’s easy to do a search on bible passages and get the bible to say what you want it to say by taking passages out of context and by not having an understanding of the bible in the first place.
Be careful what you attribute to God without wisdom.
I’m sorry you don’t get it. The Bible clearly says this. Just because you think I’m using this to discredit the Bible shows your lack of wisdom.
You can split hairs all day long; it’s summed up with, “..I, the LORD, DO ALL THESE THINGS.”
Well, the way I see things, the line of reasoning in the video is conflating scientific definitions with observed phenomena. Science may define darkness as the absence of light, but the fact still remains that the phenomena of darkness exists, or there would be no need to define it.
EXACTLY!
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