RexRed wrote:The question is, does man even reason? Or better yet, do the people here on A2k reason? It seems people here have no conception of a geometric proof and how reason is actually conducted.
Thomas Paine: "God gave us reason, not religion."
I'd say man is a being of reason. As far as geometric proof is concerned, I think you may have meant to have said something else. Not all logic follows a geometric pattern.
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I tend to think, the reasoning done here on a2k lately in the religious forums has been both sloppy and amateur.
(except for a few instances)
Where as I find the reasoning done by many theists to be well constucted but build on sand.
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People hold up traditional thought but have no basis whatsoever other than their sincerity to prop up this garbage that has been passed off as truth for so long.
such is the story of the bible. It's been accepted as truth for so long, and it's finding a home in the bookshelf next to the brothers grim and mother goose.