Wed 30 Jan, 2008 08:14 am - I understand what you are saying, Didymos Thomas. There is a level of thinking at which both the strong theist and the strong atheist position are unsupportable: the level of logical demonstration... (view)
Tue 29 Jan, 2008 09:45 am - Welcome to this site, Alveolate.
[quote=Alveolate] Even if there is no proof, there must be God. Why is proof so important? If I am not opposing anyone else's beliefs or hurting anyone both... (view)
Tue 29 Jan, 2008 09:08 am - [quote=Didymos Thomas]Perhaps I've missed the point - does any of what you've said establish that "lack of evidence does not prove nonexistence" is not accurate?[/quote]... (view)
Mon 28 Jan, 2008 06:20 am - [quote=Didymos Thomas]Well, lack of evidence does not prove nonexistence. I've never met a man named John from India, but this does not mean there is no man named John from India.[/quote]... (view)
Sun 27 Jan, 2008 09:36 am - [quote=Didymos Thomas]
The strong atheist claim is "God does not exist", which seems to be something that cannot be supported. The only support this strong claim can find is the lack of... (view)
Sat 26 Jan, 2008 05:50 am - On the subject of knowing what God is, one of the problems with this debate is that there are almost as many definitions of God as there are believers. This confirms my view that in practice the... (view)
Wed 23 Jan, 2008 02:34 pm - [quote=Aedes] the pain that extremely premature babies go through just to sustain their [I]possible[/I] survival is VASTLY greater than what any baby goes through in the course of an... (view)
Wed 23 Jan, 2008 06:07 am - [quote=Aedes]
If abortion could be performed painlessly would that make this issue disappear for you? Say in the course of a routine abortion an obstetrician could catheterize the umbilical vessels... (view)
Tue 22 Jan, 2008 10:30 am - Congratulations on your family news, Aedes. Please pass on my best wishes to your wife.
[quote=Aedes]
Thus, this decision in the end is almost always utilitarian -- not moral (and certainly not... (view)
Mon 21 Jan, 2008 10:29 am - The existence and continuity of the self, and its relationship to moral responsibility are profoundly interesting questions.
Descartes was first to raise this question. He did it as part of his... (view)