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On your last point, “the origin of the universe is a mystery, what it is made of and how it works are too. Science can describe in fantastic detail what happens, but, at the fundamental level, to what and why it can only hypothesise,” – that’s one reason why I deduce it more rational to believe in ...

That's very gracious of you. Do you do this for all religions? Firstly, by all appearances, you seem to be free of the emotional issues that distort the type of atheist I have spoken of (not that atheist must always be wrong if writhed by emotion, but it is extremely difficult for any man to trust ...

. . Yes Bill, I understand your disdain on the subject you raise, but it is a completely different subject. My argument is not about worshiping God for the sake of saving oneself from hell … my argument is either weak, and if so help me to build it stronger, more coherent, regardless of whether or ...

The difficulty we all have is the solution exists beyond the mind, and the mind being limited creates a solution with what it has access to Indeed, that’s what I was just touching on in another thread (Ask a Christian Theist.) Rationality can spark a revolutionary change of mind in favor of God, bu...

So what a man needs to seek is the actual experience of God. But then you'd have to say what an 'actual experience' is? Is it the same as the actual experience of a tree or the actual experience of Santa? Neither, at the point I speak of, it becomes a properly basic belief; similar to the way you d...

... The truly objective man can be opposed to religion, but when such emotionalism is displayed, such as that of Dawkins, ... Be fair tho', Dawkins did not start out like this, all he did was write a liitle book(to my mind always the best philosophically) and then was hounded pillar to post by the ...

God – is infinite – if it wasn’t there would be boundaries or limits and as such would not eternal. I’m not sure I follow you … I believe you have that rather juxtaposed. The eternal is limited to only one thing; time. Eternal is timeless, as in, for all time; therefore, can only exist in the const...

But just forget everything I mentioned, As you wish. and focus on this – the nonbeliever always assumes his own intellect is the reason why he can’t believe in God, The point I was making to Yon Yalvin is that people with my emotional issues don't directly 'believe' very much at all. I don't, for i...

Just another example of a religionist making a fetish of inherent contradiction. It's all a bit sad really. You point at a contradiction, regardless of that potential truth, you feel sad by it. You point at it as if to indicate I have nothing of value to say. Why your pity for me is so righteous of...

(First and foremost – I cannot label myself a Christian; for I still have issues about certain elements of the religion. However, I’m not sure that there is such a Christian that takes not issue in some way with his own religion. Christian Philosophy in general I find to be absolutely beautiful – i...

I always remember Hume at this point: religion is proof of at least one miracle: that anyone believes it. For some, that is enough. I am not disputing that Abraham's God can perform miracles, but that It has a violent nature It's quite telling that that you avoid addressing the question... as tho y...

I am well familiar that the scientific community has claims about the age of the earth and evidence to support these claims. There is no such thing as a scientific community that is in opposition to the religious community. Being a scientist is not incompatible with being religious, it is just that...

(Revised argument as of, 12/19/14) I often try to develop arguments that address my own hang ups with the God concept. I am a believer, but that of course does not render me devoid of doubts from time to time; indeed I often enough am subject to my flesh born nature. So the following is one of those...

I'd really like to read your comments on this new approach to the ethical life . I am not claiming they are conscious of it, yet today people are hungry ... but they don't know what they are hungry for. However, when they see it, they want it! When they learn about continuous value creation, they k...

Greetings, Daniel Lezcano I am glad you found the post in the o.p. here 'fascinating.' At your service! According to Value Science [Formal Axiology], which is the meta-language for Ethics, a perfect world is far less valuable for us than is a good world. And a good world is not nearly so valuable a...