Re:Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old i...
by hueving on Sunday January 11, 2015 @11:01PM
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>God in classical theism is not a "thing" among things.
Neither is an invisible horse. These all fall under the category of things that there is no physical evidence for.
>So wouldn't it be helpful, for the sake of the thought experiment proposed by shawndumas, to at least see where his reasoning leads?
No, because his entire premise is based on the existence of something that follows no logic or physical laws. Something that violates the laws of logic cannot be reasoned about.
Re:Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old i...
by anglican1549 on Saturday January 24, 2015 @02:38PM
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But an invisible horse is referencing a thing simply without the accidents of visibility, but a finite thing nevertheless.
You're still trapped in a category Christians (or any traditional Theists) don't believe about God. We're asserting X, you're attacking Y.
So wouldn't it be helpful, for the sake of the thought experiment proposed by shawndumas, to at least see where his reasoning leads? The premise ("There is a God") might not be true, but an a priori exclusion of such a being seems no more based on logic than the counter claim. What is helpful, I think, is if by looking through those lenses we see if God gives the world more explanatory power than by not looking through those lenses.