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| Bravo | Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:11 pm Post #61 |
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Although you give me a choice, I have a strong feeling you lean towards the first one rather then second, at least your writting suggests so. |
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| Lintendo | Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:15 pm Post #62 |
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haha hes not leaning on a side, hes just calling u an obvious retard if u believe in the second one from his explanation |
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| Username | Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:14 pm Post #63 |
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Hey, what's a bias guys? |
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| FaZ- | Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:02 am Post #64 |
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You can't be biased if you're stating your opinion... Tonic's post was obviously not meant to be objective in manner (though I consider it relatively so =D), anyone who can't see that needs to go read a book or twelve. That's all. I'm agnostic if anyone cares. No need to waste part of my life believing in that which has no proof. "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Username | Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:14 pm Post #65 |
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Alright, so I'm taking a level two philosophy course and we're talking about proofs/disproofs of God. Everyone keeps saying 'oh theres no proof of God'. Well there is. Here's one proof of God, called the cosmological argument (paraphrased in my own words): 1) Whatever exists must have a reason (cause) to exist. (Something can't come from nothing) 2) Things exist 3) => There must have been either an infinite chain of causes and events, or an eternal, unchanging, necessary first cause 4) An infinite chain of causes and events (an infinite series) is impossible (4*) 5) Therefore, the only explanation for existence is an eternal, unchangeable first cause (God) 4* i) All things must have a cause ii) An infinite series can be treated as a thing iii) The series is contingent (which means it is non-necessary; it could have happened in any of a number of different ways. For example, you could read this message, or you could not, and the universe would still exist) iv) Therefore, the infinite series must have a necessary, external cause (God) Thats the gist of the argument. And if your looking for physical evidence of God, the entire universe is evidence of his existence if you accept that he exists. :P |
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| Etra | Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:32 pm Post #66 |
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There are plenty of proofs for the existence of God, there just aren't any sound ones. |
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| FaZ- | Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:50 pm Post #67 |
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That's a reasonably sound proof that there's some sort of higher power that started everything, but that's still incredibly far from proving religions are even close to being true. I don't see how that in any way proves that higher power must be eternal. Maybe there was a God to start the universe, but if he died right after doing so, what difference does it make to us? In any case, the big bang fits into that proof equally as well as any worshiped God on Earth. I very highly doubt that there is an interactive God. |
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| Username | Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:29 pm Post #68 |
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Question: What came before the big bang? Another big bang? That's an infinite series. The argument can't apply to a God that dies immediately after creating the universe, because its non-contingent. That means that it would be impossible to imagine a universe where the God didn't exist. I don't think you can just say that God existed eternally then died after creation. (He wouldn't be eternal) One problem with it is the idea that an infinite series is contingent. There are certain aspects, I think, that are necessary. For example, the universe MUST have intelligent life capable of questioning its existence (called the Anthropocentric Principle). Therefore, the universe must have 3 spacial dimensions (or matter wouldn't be able to come together). That puts a limitation on God, so he isn't all powerful. Here's a simpler proof of God, I don't like it as much. 1) The idea of God is omniscient, omnipotent, all good, and has every perfection. (The perfect being) 2) Things that exist in the real world are more perfect than things which only exist as ideas 3)God, by definition, must exist |
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| Tonic | Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:06 am Post #69 |
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I don't really like these philosophical arguments which treat God like some factor in a mathematical problem. From my limited knowledge of the cosmological argument, I'll pose this question. Your first point, correct me if I'm wrong, contradicts the rest of your points.
So, subscribing to that logic one would ultimately conclude that everything has a cause, including God. God must have a cause, or something must have created God. Does God not apply to this argument? Is God not subject to the ever-present laws of his own universe? Because you continue and say that God is not all-powerful according to this argument. If something created God, then something created that something too. And so on, so on. Kind of makes God seem a bit disappointing if you ask me. Just one link in an endless chain of successions. |
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| Username | Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:36 am Post #70 |
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No, I think you're misinterpreting. God is eternal, and necessary. The definition of eternal exempts it from needing a cause. Otherwise, it wouldn't be God, or a first cause :P. It'd be missing the point if you just assumed that God needed a cause. |
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| Tonic | Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:04 am Post #71 |
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But you said it yourself. Everything must have a cause. Something cannot come from nothing. God is something, eternal or not. |
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| Username | Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:57 am Post #72 |
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Do you know the definition of eternal? -_- |
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| Bravo | Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:54 pm Post #73 |
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You guys are just playing with words now. You can't come to a conclusion on this, its a sensitive topic. You will always have believers and disbelievers, nothing you can do about that..if being a believer makes you a better, more ethical person then continue to believe and vice-versa. But obviosly this is not the case considering extremists today and in the past using religion as a justification for atrocities...but oh well, nothing you can do about that, there will always be a minority that are against the norm and impose rules on others or cause havoc. On another note. I took a philosophy course and did not like it, to many useless questions are asked in that course. |
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| Tonic | Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:17 am Post #74 |
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I do, but you say: ii) An infinite series can be treated as a thing Wouldn't God's "eternal" existence be considered as an infinite series? Like I said, I could be misunderstanding and any impersoinal clarification would be cool. |
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| Username | Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:48 am Post #75 |
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I suppose you could consider God's actions to be a series, and since he is eternal, the series would be infinite. What does this contradict? |
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| Lintendo | Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:58 pm Post #76 |
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well if we dod consider god to be an infinite series then u have said b4 what is god's necessary and eternal cause |
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| Username | Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:35 pm Post #77 |
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Ah, I said that a contingent infinite series (the universe) must have a first cause. God on the other hand is non-contingent, so he doesn't need a cause. It's mandatory that he exists. So maybe you could look at reality as a whole as a set of two parallel, separate series. One is our universe, which could happen in any of an infinite different ways, and the other is God's actions, which are perfectly required for the universe to exist. |
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| TeaLaGe | Tue May 6, 2008 1:15 am Post #78 |
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Hey, here's an argument. If god says you should worship him or you will die, what about the people who worship other gods in religions? What if their gods say, that if they don't worship them, they would die? explain easier: Person 1 worship god = heaven, Person 2 worship buddist = Hell Person 2 worship buddist = Heaven, Person 1 Worship god = hell So to sum it all up, you're gonna go to hell whether you like it or not because every almost every religion sends you to hell if you don't worship them and you cant worship all of them at the same time, or you will go to hell for that too.. so what do you do? |
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| Geofari | Tue May 6, 2008 1:59 am Post #79 |
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you go with the fail safe - mormon |
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| TeaLaGe | Tue May 6, 2008 2:46 am Post #80 |
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uh? |
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