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Started by AFactNeedingPerson, September 17, 2020, 01:53:17 AM

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Baruch

Quote from: Cassia on September 19, 2020, 10:51:49 PM
While these sorts of logical arguments support my disbelief in the various religious god claims they do not result in my complete knowledge that "a god" does not or can not exist.

Mathematicians have the same problem with existence proofs vs constructive proofs.  In an existence proof, if you prove something possible or impossible, you are done.  In a constructive proof, one - you are proving something possible, two - you are demonstrating an example.  I exist, and am a demi-god, so that meets the requirement of number two.
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Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Baruch

Quote from: Unbeliever on September 19, 2020, 11:07:06 PM
True, I think there's only exactly one thing any of us can really know: the fact of our own awareness.

All else is subject to uncertainty.

Except when you are asleep or delusional.  Consciousness is over-rated.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
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Don't do that.

Unbeliever

Maybe, but I wouldn't enjoy doing without it.
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Baruch

Quote from: Unbeliever on September 20, 2020, 02:17:53 PM
Maybe, but I wouldn't enjoy doing without it.

How come you know you aren't a brain in a jar?
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
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Don't do that.

Unbeliever

There are no jars large enough to contain me...
.;-)
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Unbeliever on September 20, 2020, 09:04:24 PM
There are no jars large enough to contain me...
.;-)
That's what Abby something thought.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

trdsf

Quote from: Unbeliever on September 19, 2020, 10:46:49 PM
No, that argument defines God into existence by assuming a perfect being exists, because it could not be perfect without existing.
Tell that to physicists and chemists making mathematical use of the perfect gas law.  I've never got an answer to that one...
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: trdsf on September 21, 2020, 12:07:56 PM
Tell that to physicists and chemists making mathematical use of the perfect gas law.  I've never got an answer to that one...
You included your answer in your link. "Ideal gas".
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Baruch

Quote from: trdsf on September 21, 2020, 12:07:56 PM
Tell that to physicists and chemists making mathematical use of the perfect gas law.  I've never got an answer to that one...

An approximation.  As is Ohm's Law in electricity work.  The fact of condensation and freezing, are exactly when the ideal gas law stops working.

I bet you have fits over the Maxwell's Demon argument.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

trdsf

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 21, 2020, 12:39:08 PM
You included your answer in your link. "Ideal gas".
I meant I've never gotten an answer as to why 'perfect' means 'must exist'.
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Baruch

Quote from: trdsf on September 21, 2020, 04:24:08 PM
I meant I've never gotten an answer as to why 'perfect' means 'must exist'.

Never saw anything in nature I could call perfect either.  And nature exists.
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Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
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Don't do that.

AFactNeedingPerson

I appreciate the book suggestions yall.  The thread kind of took a different route...lol
“Religion has had the disastrous effect of placing vitally important concepts, such as morality, happiness and love, in a supernatural realm inaccessible to man’s mind and knowledge.”
― George H. Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God

Baruch

Quote from: AFactNeedingPerson on September 21, 2020, 05:05:20 PM
I appreciate the book suggestions yall.  The thread kind of took a different route...lol

Get back to us, which books you enjoy.  We haven't all read all of them.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

SGOS

Quote from: trdsf on September 21, 2020, 04:24:08 PM
I meant I've never gotten an answer as to why 'perfect' means 'must exist'.
It's just an arbitrary quality by assumption only.  It lures the sheep in.  Just hearing the word "perfect" puts them in a Jesus trance, and they say, "Yeah, that's right.  God is perfect, so he must exist.  There's not enough there to even make a fake syllogism.  Just a series of mental lapses, and a conclusion.

Unbeliever

Quote from: Baruch on September 21, 2020, 04:08:38 PM
An approximation.  As is Ohm's Law in electricity work.  The fact of condensation and freezing, are exactly when the ideal gas law stops working.

I bet you have fits over the Maxwell's Demon argument.
Maxwell's demon is not an argument, it's a thought experiment.
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman