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Forum: Off Topic - General 05-29-2023, 06:39 PM
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For my own understanding, apart from...

For my own understanding, apart from Judeo-Christian influence, I began with the Classical Greeks, since Aristotle stated that a thing ought to be treated according to it's nature (secular morality)....
Forum: Off Topic - General 01-14-2023, 10:10 AM
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No. I don't follow the latest science the...

No.

I don't follow the latest science the way I follow Gulfstream Park. My latest understanding is that the Borde-Vilenkin-Guth theorum argues to a beginning in time because of entropy...
Forum: Off Topic - General 01-11-2023, 03:07 PM
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Correction: Ethan Siegel. He's an astrophysicist....

Correction: Ethan Siegel. He's an astrophysicist.
#4 is relevant to the metaphysician, of which he is not...

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/4-meanings-nothing/
Forum: Off Topic - General 01-11-2023, 02:57 PM
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You didn't answer the question, "Does the Law of...

You didn't answer the question, "Does the Law of Conservation break down in the Planck era", but rather changed the subject to Woodford's "We don't know what happened before the Planck era, so not...
Forum: Off Topic - General 01-09-2023, 12:11 PM
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Does the Law of Conservation break down in the...

Does the Law of Conservation break down in the Planck era? If so, is it therefore a logical necessity, or a contingency? (Cosmological arguments claim that whatever is contingent has an external...
Forum: Off Topic - General 01-08-2023, 02:52 PM
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As long as you recognize yours is a philosophy....

As long as you recognize yours is a philosophy. You seem unaware of "instrumental" causation. Augustine was writing about creation having "potentialities" and "seeds of gradual development" in the...
Forum: Off Topic - General 07-27-2022, 11:32 AM
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It's quite tedious to read of a metaphysician who...

It's quite tedious to read of a metaphysician who continually quotes scripture about a personal divinity to a phenomenologist, and a phenomenologist who can't/won't acknowledge that his personal...
Forum: Off Topic - General 07-07-2022, 12:32 AM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
I could cite the number of mentions of the words...

I could cite the number of mentions of the words "holiness" and "love" as possessed by God, respective to the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament. I could mention the Tablets, the Holiness Code...
Forum: Off Topic - General 07-05-2022, 11:58 PM
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God is Infinite Existence. The perfections in him...

God is Infinite Existence. The perfections in him are therefore infinite. It would be impossible to separate them from him, or emphasize holiness over love, lest love lack something that holiness...
Forum: Off Topic - General 07-04-2022, 10:06 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
[QUOTE=boxcar;2815412]No! Love is an attribute. ...

[QUOTE=boxcar;2815412]No! Love is an attribute. Love is not a god, nor is love a kingdom, nor is love God! Nowhere in scripture does it say that love is God!

And I don't marginalize God by...
Forum: Off Topic - General 07-01-2022, 05:44 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
One can have a hermeneutic of suspicion or faith,...

One can have a hermeneutic of suspicion or faith, in the generic sense, about any historic, cultural "handing on" of tradition. Prior epistemological commitments will usually decide which hermeneutic...
Forum: Off Topic - General 06-30-2022, 10:30 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
The pre-Nicene fathers Irenaeus, Origen, Cyril of...

The pre-Nicene fathers Irenaeus, Origen, Cyril of Jerusalem, Justin, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria, and Hippolytus described the Trinity informally, while arguably holding to the concept of the...
Forum: Off Topic - General 06-29-2022, 12:09 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
We're dealing in philosophy. The Trinity is...

We're dealing in philosophy. The Trinity is Revelation, and a much steeper series of deductions before arriving at Christianity itself. Positing Woden as a possible god would have done no damage to...
Forum: Off Topic - General 06-29-2022, 11:28 AM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
Woden's anthropomorphic properties indicate that...

Woden's anthropomorphic properties indicate that he is composed of parts- is composite. That requires a metaphysically ultimate first principle beyond himself, because those parts (whether physical,...
Forum: Off Topic - General 06-28-2022, 05:29 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
Your return serve shouldn't be to Braxton's...

Your return serve shouldn't be to Braxton's "satisfaction" either, but I didn't bother with the video and haven't encountered his views.

Woden wouldn't be metaphysically ultimate (anthropomorphic,...
Forum: Off Topic - General 06-15-2022, 04:05 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
Lewis was influenced greatly by G.K. Chesterton...

Lewis was influenced greatly by G.K. Chesterton and his The Everlasting Man. Chesterton was fluent in paradox, exposing his opponents' arguments to contradiction when thought about more deeply. One...
Forum: Off Topic - General 06-14-2022, 12:57 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
Greetings, Boxcar. If you are interested, page...

Greetings, Boxcar. If you are interested, page down to "Where Has All the Telos Gone?" for an overview of moderns discarding goal-orientated behavior in nature, loosely supporting your second...
Forum: Off Topic - General 05-22-2022, 11:13 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
Some might make more of Dawkins' answer than you,...

Some might make more of Dawkins' answer than you, or he..."If you ask what is this adaptation good for, why does the animal do this - have a red crest, or whatever it is - the answer is always, for...
Forum: Off Topic - General 05-22-2022, 10:09 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
Any statement from "my assertion" on this issue...

Any statement from "my assertion" on this issue is hardly from an unbiased view.
Forum: Off Topic - General 05-22-2022, 01:56 AM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
That's nothing more than a handwave to ward off...

That's nothing more than a handwave to ward off final causes in nature, because per the Early Moderns, final causes couldn't be quantified. Moderns use it to ward off You-Know-Who.

But I'll play...
Forum: Off Topic - General 05-22-2022, 01:28 AM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
What is so difficult? You made the absolute...

What is so difficult? You made the absolute statement that "Religion depends on unquestioning belief for its very existence".

I gave one exception among others, i.e., the Catholic Church vis-à-vis...
Forum: Off Topic - General 05-20-2022, 01:33 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
You made an absolute statement.

You made an absolute statement.
Forum: Off Topic - General 05-20-2022, 01:31 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
Emergent consciousness is a theory. But no...

Emergent consciousness is a theory. But no questioning the theory, right Thomas Nagel, Raymond Tallis, et.al.?
Forum: Off Topic - General 05-18-2022, 03:22 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
The Catholic Church, for one, rejects fideism. ...

The Catholic Church, for one, rejects fideism.
But look what happened when atheist Thomas Nagel "questioned" the neo-Darwinian orthodoxy regarding emergent consciousness...
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Forum: Off Topic - General 05-05-2022, 06:34 PM
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Posted By dnlgfnk
There is no "need" of anything. Again, God...

There is no "need" of anything.

Again, God in his essence, as existence itself, in one eternal act of Being, contemplates his existence, his essence. Since as God he pours everything into that...
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