The problem knowledge poses to atheism

[Animavore]

Can we have the abstract from your paper?

I'm not reading all of that.

[Trolldor]

Let me summarise for you Ani:

"Derp."

[klr]

"If you post something in enough places ... "

http://forums.philosophyforums.com/thre ... 43972.html

[spinoza99]

Can we have the abstract from your paper?

I'm not reading all of that.

I'm working on trying to get it down to four or five succinct points. But it will happen later rather than sooner.

[Trolldor]

1. Derp
2. Herp
3. Durrhhh
4. ???
5. Profit!

[Eriku]

Sorry - bollox.

beat me to it old boy.even my cat agreed,what is truely a miracle is that i bothered reading it all

Impressive, I only made it as far as his definition of coordination.

and it also makes perfect sense that we'd get it wrong trying to explain our surroundings to a major extent... at least if we were to use our baser intuitions. Thankfully we have language and writing and we've been able to compound millennia of learning.

And now we have the interwebz. It's only a matter of time until we can connect directly to each others thoughts at the speed of light, making us each into component parts of a super consciousness, increasing our levels of understanding exponentially, and allowing us to transcend this shadow of reality.

How would that work? Would majority rule be the case?

Get ready to be a superspecies that believes in God

[FBM]

definition of mind: an immaterial force...The dualist position, which is the one I support, is that there exists a mind that can compel a limited number of bodies to obey its will.

Sorry, but physics has catalogued the natural forces available to human knowledge. If you want to posit mind as some sort of transcendental, conscious 'force' outside those known to science, you've got your work cut out for you. The process of human-scale consciousness is perfectly explicable within the domain of electromagnetism. This "immaterial force" is simply redundant.

[Bella Fortuna]

tl:dr

Synopsis:

sh:it

[Gawdzilla Sama]

tl:dr

Synopsis:

sh:it

Goddidit.

[Bella Fortuna]

tl:dr

Synopsis:

sh:it

Goddidit.

Dogbitit.

[Feck]

At least nobody has said anything fucking profane yet in this thread .

[Bella Fortuna]

At least nobody has said anything fucking profane yet in this thread .

Thank sweet sodding Christ for that.

[JimC]

Over the centuries, knowledge has been a slow steady poison to all theist positions, gradually rolling back the fog of superstition and dogma. This excerpt from Arnold's classic poem says it all...

"The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world."

[Rob]

I don't believe that you wrote this and won't respond until I see a link to a source or several books cited.

[Bella Fortuna]