Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 64 (9164 total)
7 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,839 Year: 4,096/9,624 Month: 967/974 Week: 294/286 Day: 15/40 Hour: 1/3


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Easy proof for Inteligent Design
Parasomnium
Member
Posts: 2224
Joined: 07-15-2003


Message 7 of 213 (555702)
04-15-2010 3:36 AM
Reply to: Message 6 by PaulK
04-15-2010 1:45 AM


Necessary truths and mind
PaulK writes:
In fact the whole point of necessary truths is that they are necessarily true. They cannot be false in the absence of a conscious mind because - by definition - they cannot be false under any circumstances. If your argument denies this , then your argument is wrong.
This is a very good point.
If necessary truths are dependent on something, then they are not necessary in themselves. 'Dependent' means that the absence of something - in this case mind- makes a difference for things that depend on it. This refutes the necessity of MrQ's necessary truths, since he defines them as being dependent on a conscious mind.
In a universe with only a cube and a sphere the question of how many things there are can neither be asked nor answered, unless the cube is talking to the sphere.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 6 by PaulK, posted 04-15-2010 1:45 AM PaulK has not replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 8 by Huntard, posted 04-15-2010 4:04 AM Parasomnium has replied

  
Parasomnium
Member
Posts: 2224
Joined: 07-15-2003


Message 9 of 213 (555706)
04-15-2010 4:15 AM
Reply to: Message 8 by Huntard
04-15-2010 4:04 AM


Re: Necessary truths and mind
Huntard writes:
They would need to be omniscient as well.
Not necessarily.
Cube: "How many things are there in the universe?"
Sphere (puzzled): "Beats me."

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 8 by Huntard, posted 04-15-2010 4:04 AM Huntard has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 10 by Huntard, posted 04-15-2010 4:23 AM Parasomnium has not replied

  
Parasomnium
Member
Posts: 2224
Joined: 07-15-2003


Message 23 of 213 (555744)
04-15-2010 8:38 AM
Reply to: Message 22 by Drosophilla
04-15-2010 8:19 AM


ID, not human minds
Drosophilla writes:
If humans disappeared today there is absolutely no reason to assume that the reality of the universe will cease to be...
That's not what MrQ implies. He contends that a mind came before matter, not necessarily the human mind. The topic title, after all, is Easy proof for Intelligent Design.
Edited by Parasomnium, : No reason given.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 22 by Drosophilla, posted 04-15-2010 8:19 AM Drosophilla has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024