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  1. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    He compared the thought experiment to 3 religions not all of theology. If you mean to say it is easier to tell if something is wrong than tell if something is right then yes. The video does not make any suggestions of what to do about those claims. Like the concepts of salvation, god, life...
  2. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    It is a thought experiment. It shows what would happen if a ridiculous claim was in those circumstances and compares the result to religion. I swear this is why people need to learn basic philosophy or argumentation in schools.
  3. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    You did not ask for evidence. You asked for empirical evidence. Using just empirical evidence is frankly moronic. Prove to me empirically that reality exists.
  4. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    1) The edit does not show a time stamp. 2) The quote in my comment does not have your change.
  5. CogentPhilosopher

    Are Atheist Skeptics?

    1) The word atheist is not capitalized like a proper noun. 2) Being an atheist does not inherently make you a skeptic and most atheists are not skeptics. 3) Not all atheists are skeptics but all skeptics are atheists unless they had access to some information or experience outside of public...
  6. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    Just went backed and saw that you edited your comment to add something from the video after I questioned if you had watched it. Really?
  7. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    Bye bye troll.
  8. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    Yes you can challenge it. So? It never claims otherwise? Karma, bigfoot, reptile aliens, heaven's gate, the illumanti?
  9. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    Yeah, you just used one.
  10. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    I am. Why do you assume that I am not? If your just here to make logical fallacies then please leave or add something useful to the conversation.
  11. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    Look I don't know how to explain this to you but is a lie has a bit of truth to it, it's still a lie. The video does not assume that religion is a ridiculous claim, it puts forward that it acts how you expect a ridiculous claim would. You also seem to overestimate how "rebellious" people are...
  12. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    Thank you. You just proved my point. Since you just made an argument without using empirical evidence you apparently do believe that rational arguments are valuable. By the way, I never said you can think out everything.
  13. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    I must have missed that. Where does he say that the truth is known in full?
  14. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    Congratulations. You do not know how philosophy and/or logic works and I doubt you watched the video. Rational arguments are based on concepts and thought experiments. In other words: Argument A is supported by Thought Experiment A. Empirical arguments are based on empirical observations...
  15. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    Then you know it's a rational argument using thought experiments not an empirical one.
  16. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    Did you watch the video?
  17. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    I think you missed the point. The point was to show how an intelligent person can believe in a ridiculous claim in certain circumstances and then open you to question why most religions use these circumstances.
  18. CogentPhilosopher

    Love Loves a Doubter

    Here is where the problem is. Fool said on his own authority to question everything but used a scripture as a vague backing. I pointed out that questioning Yeshua's authority would make you got to hell in Christian theology. I did not say that Yeshua said that.
  19. CogentPhilosopher

    Love Loves a Doubter

    Did I say anything about the kjv? I said that, if memory serves, alchemy is not older than the bible.
  20. CogentPhilosopher

    "...but intelligent people believe in God" Analysis, Discussion, and Debate

    I would like to see people of a variety of viewpoints analyze and discuss this video by DarkMatter2525.
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