Comment by microondas on If conciousness isn't physical does it imply god?
As far as I can tell, my consciousness is an emergent property of my brain. If my brain were destroyed, so too would be my consciousness. If I alter my brain, my consciousness changes, too. This points...
View ArticleComment by microondas on Please criticize my argument for a first cause
@loopit from paragraph two to paragraph three, you somehow changed "cause" to "being" which smuggles in some connotations that you failed to justify. That's either intentional (you are just granting...
View ArticleComment by microondas on Rejecting a proposition because there are other...
I think you're very slightly misunderstanding the intended argument. I've often heard it phrased as: "Religions A, B, C (...n) all make competing claims, therefore it's impossible that they are all...
View ArticleComment by microondas on Can God's existence be established through reason...
@pygosceles the existence of a deity who oversees and intervenes in the whole of our existence would be the most important fact we could possibly know. If it were sufficiently demonstrated to be true...
View ArticleAnswer by microondas for Isn't there a very obvious flaw in the Ultimate...
We then ask how it originated and developed, and this leads us to a Creator.That is an enormous leap to make. Can you craft an argument that the origin of life necessarily has a capital-C creator?the...
View ArticleComment by microondas on Would seeing the stars spell out a sentence justify...
@Baby_philosopher yes, that'd be a candidate explanation. My point was, even if we ruled out all the natural causes we could imagine, that wouldn't then confirm a supernatural cause.
View ArticleComment by microondas on Can atheism be considered as cult
@DmytroBrazhnyk 1) there's no devotion or veneration to that belief, though. If you convince me today that any god exists, I will happily say I'm no longer an atheist. 2) We can discuss whether 15% is...
View ArticleAnswer by microondas for Is atheism religion with all attributes?
atheism is wicked theologyAtheism (the lack of a belief in a god) is not a theology.I don't think science has proven that god doesn't exist. (I'm not even sure if science could prove that.) I do think,...
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