On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On 2/28/2018 3:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> So what do you find more convincing: An axiomatic proof that God exists, >> e.g. St Anslem's or Goedel's. or The mere empirical absence of evidence. >> >> In these proves, God = Totality / Ultimate Reality / The Whole >> Shebang. They don't mention commandments, or talking snakes or burning >> bushes. I think you are proposing a false equivalence. >> >> >> No, you are inserting one. St Anselm proves that perfect being/agent >> exists. He didn't claim to prove any other mythology. So the question >> stands: Who ya gonna believe? the axiomatic proof or your lyin' eyes? > > I find St. Anselm's proof meaningless, because perfection is a human > concept, i.e. it is relative to our evolutionary niche and > circumstances. The perfect shot for the hunter is not the perfect shot > for the prey. Ok, so let's say that reality as a whole counts as the > perfect being. Perhaps. Could it be any other way that would be worse?
I meant "that would be better", of course. > If not, then it's perfect. I don't think one can weigh these > abstractions against the empirical evidence that we have against the > literal interpretation of religious texts. > > Telmo. > >> Brent >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
