On 05 Mar 2017, at 23:20, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>
wrote:
> Like we can agree to use "god" in the sense of the
philosopher: the (unknown) ultimate/absolute reality.
Yes it's possible that a majority of those fluent in the English
language could have decided that the ASCII sequence "God" means the
unknown ultimate/absolute reality, BUT THEY DID NOT; instead they
decided that sequence means a intelligent conscious omniscient
omnipotent PERSON who created the universe.
The majority are not doing science, simply.
In any language the majority is always always always the final
authority on what a word means.
Not when we do science.
The fact that you absolutely positively insist on using nonstandard
meanings
Read any book in comparative theology. My use of the term is the most
standard one. It works for both believer and non believer. You need
only to agree with the defining axioms. Only fundamentalist stick on
literal interpretation of this or that text/theory.
tells me you're more interested in vocabulary than you are in
science or mathematics or philosophy or even theology.
It is the exact contrary. The reasoning does not depend on the choice
of words at all.
Your seem to work for the fundamentalists against any come back to
reason in the field, and insist on very particular fairy tale
theories. In europa, I am not aware of any theologian doing this. Even
the priest are laughed at when they do this in most urban churches.
Perhaps some remain in the country, but I am not sure. But thanks for
adding so much confirmation that gnostic atheism Is accomplice of the
fundamentalist in making us forget that the original doubt was about
the existence of the Material Universe, not on Reality.
Bruno
John K Clark
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