2014-07-14 17:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>:
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> On 14 Jul 2014, at 12:53, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
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> 2014-07-14 12:09 GMT+02:00 Samiya Illias <[email protected]>:
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>> Why do you need to see God to believe in God?
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> Why should you believe if you can know ? If you can't, why should you
> believe instead of not believing or go eating an hamburger ?
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> Seeing might make you know *that* you see, but it does not entail that you
> know *what* you see, as you might be dreaming or hallucinating.
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That wasn't what I was implying... I see not point to "believe" or not
"believe"... Why *shoud* I believe anyway ?
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> In general you believe something, not because you see it, but because it
> fits well with your background knowledge. I can't see the set {0, 1, 2,
> ...}, nor really define it, yet I hardly doubt that it makes sense, as it
> explains a lot of other things in which I already tend to believe (like the
> non existence of a bigger prime, or the existence of universal numbers, the
> real numbers, etc.).
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> Bruno
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> Quentin
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>> On 14-Jul-2014, at 2:14 am, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 7/13/2014 3:47 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
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>> Sure: "Do you believe in a theist god?"
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>> I'd like to.
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>> *So we can keep using the word "theology" and keep some academic
>> departments that have no subject.*
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>> This would also include political science, arts, gender studies, french
>> literature. Are you willing to go that far, and make what doesn't build
>> bridges or bake bread, something to be learned as a podcast? Sauce for the
>> goose, sauce for the gander. Dump them all. Right?
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>> I can point to art, people with genders, and french literature. I've run
>> a political campaign. But I've never seen a god.
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>> Brent
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