On 12 Dec 2016, at 19:36, Brent Meeker wrote:



On 12/12/2016 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
And the religionist, trying to keep their comfort and influence, keep fuzzing up the target and spreading it out because it's center keeps getting hit by facts.

Atheism is either agnostic, or is a religion: an ontological commitment in something we have no evidence to explain away a technical problem. The belief in 0 personal god together with the belief in one impersonal God, (Primary matter) are religious commitment, with the large sense of God.

"Atheism is a religion like bald is a hair color. Atheism is a religion like OFF is a TV channel. Atheism is a religion like an empty lot is a building..."
   --- George Carlin


Correct for agnostic atheism.

False for the atheists who believe that there is no God (the gnostic atheists).

Gnostic Atheists use all the time the confusion between ~[]g and []~g.

The difference between ~[]g and []~g is the real fracture between the fanatic-radicals and the scientific attitude.







Here many confuse the existing evidences for a physical reality with the non existing evidence for a primary matter. That confusion is easy to explain by evolution-pressure, but that does not make it true. Science is born with the doubt that Matter is the explanation. God exist by definition for a Platonist: it is what the fundamental researcher is searching: the reality (which is transcendental, we cannot prove it exists) but can try theories ("first principles" in the antic terming).

Too bad the Platonist can't be consistent in their skepticism.

Where?



You can't define things into existence.

That is what I just say. But that is what is done by pseudo-scientists claiming that science is materialist.




You can search for what is fundamental, but that doesn't prove that it exists.


We can only start from what we agree on, and to just define digital mechanism, we must agree that 2+2 = 4, and Ex(x+2=4) and things like that, taught in high school since a long time. Then the reasoning explains that matter and mind are phenomenological appearance emerging, from 2+2=4 and alike. It works and is testable. Physics works, but use contradictory statement to rely the equation and the first person verification of the equation.

I have had recently a long discussion with an "atheist" who eventually was forced, to make his point, to eliminate consciousness from the picture, like Dennett and the Churchland did. He understood that a notion of ontological matter simply does not work. It is equivalent with God made it by violating the rules of logic.

There is no worry. Either digital mechanism is false, or physics will relies on more solid base than observation and inductive inference.

Bruno





Brent

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