Of course you can disproove things outside of mathematics, just as you can proove them. For example if you have paradoxes you can show that obviously something must be wrong.
Of course it can. Mathematics is a DEFINED system. If we had choosen to DEFINE operations differently we could have...
No, it only means that you assumed the result we see to be a desired and sole target of a process that started long ago.
What do you think for example would happen to your calculation if you just used the chance that "any couple" could produce "any baby" that survives long enough to mate with a...
...because its tooooo easy to do that. Everybody would believe in God if he just showed himself to exist.
Instead he has choosen to remain hidden so that we need faith.
Faith ya know .... that "blind trust".
What is "gnostic knowledge" supposed to be ?
Anyway my 5 cents...
Whenever people talk about true wisdom/peace/knowledge coming from abandoning reason i ultimately have the same image in my mind.
Two people standing in front of a totally drunken crowd and one asks the other guy:
"And you think...
Perhaps we simply do not share the same definition of "relevance".
Relevance for me means (similarly to the wikipedia definition) the connection of something to something else is. In other words if (and / or how much) impact it has.
A fruit fly IS relevant. It IS connected to this world, its...
This was a very interesting argument and my response actually was also in your post:
I will grant you 1 although i do not see any connection to my argument as i mainly was concentrating on things within the universe.
Point 2 is the essential one. IF the scriptures make claims about things that...
Strength is unrelated to truth.
And i did not state that reality is subjective i only stated that for us subjective beings it is hard to argue how to get to an objective truth.
Thats the reason why for example we do have the scientific method to form some "quasi objective" framework.
I also...
Sorry if it sounds harsh, but you make a completely different argument without adressing mine.
Could you adress mine and post your argument in a new thread?
You could take a short first answer to parts of your argument with you:
[/B]The argument fails in the very first premisse by stating an...
In a way thats correct and in another way it is false.
The argument claims that nonexistence and irrelevant existence should be considered equal. And then it tries to proove that Gods existence is at least irrelevant and then therefore equal to his nonexistence.
Sorry bit that is a fallacious...
Since we all rely on our senses and our brain of course (philosophically and logically) we talk about some form of subjectivity.
Hence what we call "objectivity" is mostly the collective sujective data that is in agreement between us (or that we see and hear each other agree with).
There is in...
Is this an insult?
Is it condescending?
Some christians/muslims/jews etc. suggest or claim it is.
If so why ?
Why is it an insult to state for example that belief in christianity is no different (from an evidence based perspective) than belief in unicorns, or fairies?
I am sorry but i fail to see what supposedly is so convincing?
Point 1 more or less the idea that the explanation for the "cause" of the universe would have to lie outside of it. Although i think this would not have to be that way we could take it for granted for the sake of the argument...
I find it somewhat disapointing that there have not been so many replies till now.
If the argument is so silly i would expect a good argument against it.
If it is so good then i would expect people to agree.
I have to disagree with you partially.
I agree that people do not rise up to injustices in arab countries for example. But i disagree when it comes to blaming all on their inability or lack of will to fight for human rights.
The problem lies deeper. For example in the fact that many there do not...
Let me enter the stage here badran.
I think you make a fundamental mistake. You assume that the ruling is good and humans "only fail" to act properly because of what you call corruption.
That viewpoint in my view is a wrong one EVEN if it were true.
For humans allways will fail now and then...