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by _Asimov
Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:36 pm
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Can The Atheist Account For Reason?
Replies: 33
Views: 17062

Logic reflects the thinking of God and the orderly way in which He has created the world. That is my account for logic. You may not like it, but it is in fact and answer. I guess you could say it's an attribute. Providing an answer, and having it be sensible are two completely different things. If ...
by _Asimov
Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:04 pm
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Discussion with JC
Replies: 21
Views: 11798

Actually, causality does not imply determinism ---- not when free agents are factored in as multiple "first causes" in the many causal chains. For determinists, there is no first cause, but an infinite chain of causes regressing into the past. They assume that indeterminism must assume randomness. ...
by _Asimov
Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:15 pm
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Discussion with JC
Replies: 21
Views: 11798

So the physical laws of nature are dependent upon the size of the sample? This is a serious question... I have no idea. At the atomic and subatomic level, matter behaves differently. Let's take the behaviour of the nucleus of an atom and an electron orbiting around it. Newtonian mechanics predict t...
by _Asimov
Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:32 am
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Can The Atheist Account For Reason?
Replies: 33
Views: 17062

Well, if it does, then give an account for the laws of logic. The last time I asked you to, you just said you didn't have to. You said that I can't account for it, I asked why not. I thought you were asking how we knew that He Himself was logical, as opposed to His existence being logical. You're n...
by _Asimov
Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:03 am
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Questioning Evolution
Replies: 51
Views: 22383

STEVE7150 wrote: OK but i never said we "must have" confidence in truth, i just said i do have confidence in truth as revealed by Jesus. But one thing we can agree on is that we have free will and therefore we each choose our view of life.
I don't know about that, can you not believe in God on a whim?
by _Asimov
Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:02 am
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Discussion with JC
Replies: 21
Views: 11798

By "quantum state" I assume you're talking about the unpredictable nature of compacted energy... since that would be an argument against the more concrete "mechanical" physics. It's very difficult to test things like quantum states so I stick to the things that have been tested, like Newton's law o...
by _Asimov
Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:30 pm
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Questioning Evolution
Replies: 51
Views: 22383

Steve, this is one of the things that led Anthony Flew to embrace Deism. He could no longer buy into the creation story of atheism Hi JC, My wife and daughter bought a cute white poodle about 7 yrs ago but of course i was ordered to walk it. As i walked it at night i started looking up at the stars...
by _Asimov
Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:49 pm
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Questioning Evolution
Replies: 51
Views: 22383

The fundamental forces broke apart from a unified state after the Big Bang occured, as theorized. So, they did not come out of thin air, they are the disorder coming from order, as a result of entropy. From a unified state? How on earth could you make a difinitive statement like that? Who said it w...
by _Asimov
Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:44 am
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Can The Atheist Account For Reason?
Replies: 33
Views: 17062

If you want to attempt to cut away at the discussion so we don't have book-like replies, that would be more conducive to discussion. If you feel like I am not answering a specific question to your satisfaction, then say so. But if there are things that can be addressed in a "lumped" fashion, then do...
by _Asimov
Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:42 am
Forum: Christian Evidences & Challenges
Topic: Can The Atheist Account For Reason?
Replies: 33
Views: 17062

An atheistic worldview does not provide the foundation for reason to take place. By that I don't mean a explanation for the ability to reason, but rather a foundation by which to reason in the first place. Like the laws of logic. Why not? If the God of the bible exists, it could be no other way. Wh...

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