tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204971220397555269.post1209793038115888914..comments2023-07-08T01:44:12.080-07:00Comments on Naastika: 5 Reasons to Reject Belief in GodsCopernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176905042338488022noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204971220397555269.post-61904347572802696072008-01-14T20:28:00.000-08:002008-01-14T20:28:00.000-08:00Copernicus,At the risk of sounding like a spyware ...Copernicus,<BR/>At the risk of sounding like a spyware detector, your post contains the following errors:<BR/><BR/>#1<BR/>Argument from speculation. Are you familiar with the "somehow" defense? For any argument that attempts to show that Q is incompatible with an omniscient or omnipotent God, the theist can respond "Q is compatible with God somehow" without providing a reason, because: (a)Omnipotence allows God to resolve any given contradiction *somehow* and (b)Omniscience allows God to know *something* that we don't, so the contradiction must be only an apparent contradiction.<BR/><BR/>#2<BR/>This is an argument for weak atheism, not strong atheism. I am a weak atheist, so I don't dipute this.<BR/><BR/>#3<BR/>This is a dangerous epistemology. I don't think induction can apply to species of beliefs. The premise of this argument is "if a belief of type B has consistently been false in the past, all beliefs of type B will be false in the future". By this same logic, we should discard our current scientific beliefs because our earlier ones were wrong.<BR/><BR/>#4<BR/>Because this argument explicitly attacks a theistic attempt to prove God, it too is an argument for *weak* atheism. I actually like this argument because it forces the fundamentalist believer to either become a moderate or engage in solipsistic speculation ("maybe God planted the fossils...").<BR/><BR/>#5<BR/>"Induction says A, religion says not A, therefore religion is wrong." Seems pretty sound to me.<BR/><BR/>Good article on the whole.<BR/>Regards,<BR/>Occam.Occamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00781453120302306516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3204971220397555269.post-38188904912173385522007-12-16T23:13:00.000-08:002007-12-16T23:13:00.000-08:00Welcome to the blogosphere, buddy. :)Welcome to the blogosphere, buddy. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com