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  1. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    And I agreed with that. But where you did not address this is that fanaticism in atheism is no different than fanaticism in Christianity, and that "militant" in its common use does not mean the same as armed militias, but denonets the same thing Einstein was speaking of as fanaticism. You didn't...
  2. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    Where is the militancy in anything that people who are prone towards fanaticism find? It's not atheism itself, nor Christianity, nor any other cause that is the issue. But it's the individuals themselves. Certainly there are fantantical atheists. Einstein himself said so.... “fanatical...
  3. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    I don't think anyone who refers to atheists, or any other type of believer as militant means that they are terrorists who kill people. Here is the common usage of the word militant. Militant - Wikipedia The English word militant is both an adjective and a noun, and it is generally used to mean...
  4. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    Do you believe that it is impossible for atheists to be black and white fundamentalists in their zeal? Do you believe all atheists are serene, well-reasoned, rational, moderate and fair in their thinking and attitudes towards all others who think and believe differently than themselves, and that...
  5. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    What makes anyone "militant" is this: "aggressively active or combative in support of a cause:militant reformers." That's the dictionary definition of the word. So it's not "nothing", it is being "aggressively active or combative in support of a cause." Are there atheists who do this...
  6. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    Then you are not an antitheist according to the meaning of that word. This is a good article I'd recommend reading to help clarify the muddiness of what people's positions actually are when they say they are an "atheist". A couple excerpts: Reza Aslan: Sam Harris and "New Atheists" aren't new...
  7. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    Yes, this is what I push against all the time consistently in my posts. Experience is empiricism, and experience is subjective. To say "where's your evidence", and then discount experience as evidence because it is subjective is completely disingenuous. What experience is not subjective? Even...
  8. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    Oh yes, of course. Our differentiating this from that, drawing boundaries around objects and so forth is a natural product of evolution itself. All humans do is take these functional tools from nature, and use our intelligence to develop and expand them to greater and greater levels of...
  9. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    I agree there is a world that exists external to our bodies. It exists as other to the "self" only because of how we see ourselves as separate from the world, which is actually an unreality. We are very much part of the world and the world as us. But it is precisely this differentiation of...
  10. Windwalker

    Is It Reasonable to Believe Gods Don't Exist?

    Hey, how are you doing? Oh, definitely not a logical positivist. The quotes I encountered which I snagged speak to a bigger picture about the nature of reality, which itself shows how LP doesn't really work. All of these claims of using logic and reason to understand the nature of reality, is...
  11. Windwalker

    The faith that the brain is the source of mind doesn't hold up

    It is also the religious and the philosophical that considers mind to be nothing but the brain. Science doesn't consider it that. Science does not make such proclamations of belief. I don't think you realize that you are doing philosophy and not science, but assume that because to you science...
  12. Windwalker

    The faith that the brain is the source of mind doesn't hold up

    No, your view is not evidenced based. So there. :)
  13. Windwalker

    Plant Sentience

    It's not quite weird and illogical at all. It seems you are just unfamiliar with how it can be used. For instance: Awareness - Wikipedia Awareness is a relative concept. It may be focused on an internal state, such as a visceral feeling, or on external events by way of sensory perception.[3] It...
  14. Windwalker

    Plant Sentience

    What do you imagine "actual awareness or a choice" to entail? The result of a conscious thought process? I would not limit awareness, or consciousness, to the active thought level. These behaviors that you described are self-adapted systems in response to the environment, which then become, I...
  15. Windwalker

    Plant Sentience

    An AI "thinks", but is it really consciousness? My point being that mechanical devices mimicking nature, is not the same thing as nature. Think of the problem with the apologists "watchmaker" argument, that you can't find a watch out in the jungle and not assume a watchmaker, in support of...
  16. Windwalker

    Plant Sentience

    Isn't responsiveness awareness? Isn't consciousness simply awareness, from the most basic level of being able to response to the world at whatever level that is, all the way to cognitive self-reflective awareness? Isn't it really simple a degree of complexity and sophistication of the same basic...
  17. Windwalker

    The faith that the brain is the source of mind doesn't hold up

    So is my view. It is a view based upon an evaluation of the evidence. I see it as a better more explanatory model of the available data, than a reductionist paradigm can offer.
  18. Windwalker

    The faith that the brain is the source of mind doesn't hold up

    Well, that's an interesting choice of language you used there. "Life experiences are stored in the brain". Wait, what? Are you saying they are stored in the brain, and are not the brain itself? Aren't you making my case for me? :) So you are acknowledging they are are in fact non-material...
  19. Windwalker

    The faith that the brain is the source of mind doesn't hold up

    It's only your perception that sees it as irrational because it doesn't make sense to you, given what you understand. Because why not? Simply saying, it doesn't is not a response. No it's not. It may be false to you because it doesn't fit in with your worldview. But that's the issue now, isn't...
  20. Windwalker

    Did Adam and Eve and animals have genitals before the fall?

    I am quite consistent in my posts, but you assume that because I state I believe in God that I am a prerational person who struggles with science, which is completely false. The error you make is that you assume anything that goes beyond the philosophical materialist rationalist mindset, much be...
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