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lol do you have a PhD?

thanks for the input everyone

well that makes things much more difficult :(

Objectivism is awesome to use on theists.

A creationist claimed to read in textbooks and science journals that nothing begat everything. I challenged him to produce citations. He provided this http://www.icr.org/article/evolution-ex-nihilo/ I know it's not a textbook or journal, but this quote is interesting. "In 1973, I proposed that...

hai2u2!

nothing but sarcasm squawk :) I've really got to stop trying to type sarcastically heh.

PHILOSOPHISTRY ;)

What do you mean...You people??

what do you think an objection to the first premise might be besides the Calvanist and Mormon one? Is "having always existed" contrary to premise 1? This isn't my pet argument or anything, I was turned on to it by a friend, and it's interesting if nothing else. You're right, I left out the...

The problem with this version of TAG is that "Logical Absolutes" do not exist. Logic is a formal system for the rules of inference, based on observations of reality like "a bird is a bird. A bird is not not a bird." Logic came about through observation. The "Logical Absolutes" is terminology...

There is a fatal flaw to theism that isn't exploited enough. People who believe in a God who created the Universe usually confuse the logical relationship between "object of consciousness" and "subject of consciousness". Here's a syllogism I came across that expresses this. If the premises are...

XMAN that bumper sticker you made is FTW

this creationist told me he would be happy to educate me on science, theology, or philosophy if I was curious about these things. I took him up on the offer. Mandangalo18- I see you have some first cause arguments on your page, perhaps you'd like to enter your version of that one? And you're...

asking for an example of something that "began to exist" usually shuts down kalam

It seems this is the old square of opposition: denying one proposition affirms the contradictory opposite. The square has problems with propositions where the subject has not been shown to exist, I think the second part demonstrates that difficulty. I had never read that one before, it's kind...

be ready for a can o' worms of biblical proportions arguing that one. Arguments about bible interpretations are very...very... tedious.

ya that's what I meant

There hasn't been a formal refutation of this yet, so here we go! First let's put it in proper logical form of a categorical syllogism. If he had written it properly, it would be a first figure BARBARA syllogism. Let's transpose the premises to make it so. All codes that we know the origin of...

dude you can't enjoy sex if you're dead.