[lbo-talk] Question re: Religion vs "spirituality"

ravi listmail at kreise.org
Tue Dec 6 11:57:15 PST 2005


At around 5/12/05 6:50 pm, boddi satva wrote:
> I don't know, it seems to me most of the time people assert God into
> their arguments without specifying the qualities of the God they
> hypothesize. It's not enough to say, for example, "a creator". You
> have to hypothesize how this God might have created. Most of the time
> people seem to posit "a creator with all the powers He needed to do
> whatever I think He did but in a way which is invisible" and that's
> ridiculous.
>
> On 12/5/05, ravi <listmail at kreise.org> wrote:
>> At around 3/12/05 5:49 am, boddi satva wrote:
>>> What we can say is that there are no known, reproducible observations
>>> which logically imply the existence of God.
>>>
>> Well, depends on what we mean by logical implication, yes? Godel,
>> underdetermination, etc...
>

Sure, people say the strangest things, yes. But logical implication is still a tricky thing...

--ravi

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