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Religion / The Flaw Of The Fine Tuning Argument by hiddendude: 2:44am On May 12, 2021 |
The fine tuning argument puts forth the idea of necessary precision, a precision that must be met by even God. It states that God had to set the conditions right for life to evolve on earth but the argument itself limits God. How? It indirectly states that God couldn't have created or caused life in other conditions. Fine tuning is necessitated by restrictions and if this is the case with how life arose on earth and if God is a necessary fine-tuner, then it means there are restrictions to what God can do. If God must assume utmost charge over all states of affairs, then it must imply that he can cause life to arise in conditions different from the present one. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 9:02pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
Hermes119: This is just emotional rambling. There is nothing worth tackling here. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 3:32pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
FatherOfJesus: An argument by analogy has to make use of known facts to prove ideation. There is no false equivalence here. It is simply an analogy. You on the other hand claim that knowing something in its entirety rules out the possibility that it was caused. Ridiculously fallacious!!! |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 3:28pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
kingxsamz:Loaded question fallacy! |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 3:27pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
kingxsamz: As I said, that is an entirely different problem that is beyond the scope of this thread. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 2:49pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
FatherOfJesus:A proof that you're unaware of argument by analogy. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 2:37pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
FatherOfJesus: This is a primer to ignore you. You have no argument. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 2:29pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
FatherOfJesus:You keep missing the point over and over and have made no concrete counterargument. As I said, the religious concept of God is simply an overly anthropomorphized form of whatever caused the universe to exist. You keep committing a fallacy of false equivalence. Even if we come to fully know how the universe works, it still doesn't rule out a God. It is like saying because I know the inner workings of a computer, it thus had no maker. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 12:42pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
FatherOfJesus: *sigh I have explained this before. We know that an infinite regress couldn't have been the case and the universe itself must by necessity, begin for there to be cause and effect. Your argument against the infinite nature of the universe is totally out of the question. You tried to argue against the possibility of the universe not being infinite and not directly for the existence of any deity. It’s a strawman, no one has asked whether the universe is infinite or not, you do not have to create that argument to distract everyone rather focus on logical providing evidence for the existence of your deity because whether or not the universe is Infinite, it’s not an automatic yes for a God if you can’t fill the gaps. You're strawmanning by blowing my argument out of proportions. What part of this being an argument from inference was lost in translation? Since no one asked whether or not the universe exists or not or raised an argument, then this isn't a counterargument but an argument. It is possible to imagine the universe is infinite without anyone making that claim. You need to understand the Big Bang, seems you have a crude knowledge of what it says. The Big Bang theory explains that the universe started from a singularity then started expanding Until this point, it only explains the age of the universe as from the point the universe started expanding and accelerating. It doesn’t explain what instigated that singularity. This leads to the question; what started that singularity? The Big Bang doesn’t answer that. You keep accusing me of fallacies when you're the one employing them. You immediately assume I have no perfect knowledge of the Big Bang and still employ another debunked theory. The infinite contraction and expansion of the universe is itself regressive. The issue with what happened before the Big Bang is a big problem for the existence of any deity. Stephen Hawking said in book “brief answers to big questions” (I won’t quote him verbatim); the space-time continuum we perceive today couldn’t have existed before the Big Bang, so time couldn’t have even existed to create anything since specetime is a product of our current perception of the universe , it brings a lot of problems to creationists who says that God must be existing outside of space and time, the problem now is that there’s no method to confirm this hypotheses hence becomes unscientific. How is it a problem to a deity's existence? |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 12:28pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
FatherOfJesus: Of course, same old rebuttals that have been debunked. Russell's teapot is aimed at attacking irrational faith in a God. It isn't to attack the concept of God. The Flying Spaghetti monster doesn't exist because as a concept, it is mostly a parody. God on the other hand could possibly exist because it is a concept drawn from observation. It is simply a heavily anthropomorphic concept of whatever caused the universe to exist. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 12:07pm On Apr 07, 2021 |
FatherOfJesus: Actually it is permissible to use the bible as evidence of God's existence. It only begs the question when one uses the bible to attempt to prove the truth of Christianity. If I quote say, the apostle Paul in an argument for God's existence, it is no different from quoting Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, Stuart Mill, William James or any other philosopher. Again, there’s so many logical and empirical reason so to doubt the existence of a God -Lehigh have not been addressed. The cause and effect argument is so weak as this will also apply to the existence of any diety. Errm, yes that's the point. We employ such arguments to establish the existence of a deity and we care less which deity it is as that's an entirely different problem. The concept of God goes beyond mere religious beliefs. It is very grand and if we can establish the existence of just one of the numerous deities, then we have established that there's a God. Quoting the Bible creates the impression that the Christian God is the God which we are referring to and that’s faulty and immitiately limits the concept of God by disregarding other religious concepts. We have to prove first of all that a diety exist before proving that the concept of a Christians isn’t actually the correct one. Here you have destroyed your own argument. If you can by some way prove that Christianity isn't true, you'll still have to prove that other religions aren't true and hence the problem of God's existence proves to be beyond mere religious beliefs. It is a broad concept. Quoting the bible does imply that the Christian God is true but it still is an evidence for a God anyways. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 11:50am On Apr 07, 2021 |
Ihedinobi3: Thank you my good man. It is refreshing to see a fellow Christian think this way. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 11:42am On Apr 07, 2021 |
FatherOfJesus:Know when to use a fallacy claim. No 1 doesn't immediately infer God. It is simply inference from how we understand the universe. So, this isn't a God of the gaps fallacy. Moreso, if we do entirely understand the universe, it doesn't still rule out a creator. I know how it works ≠ It had no cause This is a fallacy of false equivalence. No2 is a fallacy of strawman, you ended creating another argument that doesn’t in anyway provide evidence for the existence of a God. Again, know how to use fallacy claims or understand fallacies first. A strawman intends to undermine an interlocutor's argument by attacking a similar argument. This is simply me raising a new argument not attacking another. No3 is another strawman, the argument that the universe existed infinitely is still a hypothesis, it doesn’t in anyway provide evidence for the existence of a God. Nobody knows for sure what happens before the Big Bang, everyone is hypothesizing. You can’t base your conclusion in philosophical arguments alone, this is why even Aristotle was wrong many times. Errm, this isn't a strawman even if I intended attacking the hypothesis. A strawman aims to undermine an argument by attacking a different but somewhat similar argument. I. I didn't intend to attack the hypothesis. II. That it is a hypothesis doesn't mean it precludes a counterargument. Even if I did attack it, I am attacking it as it is without attacking a different argument in the course. 4. If the universe needs to have a beginning then your God must also have a beginning. If you God cannot have a beginning then the universe can also not have a beginning. If you think the universe must have a beginning and your god doesn’t then it’s going to be a fallacy of special pleading. If your God has a beginning then it will lead to an infinitesimal beginnings which creates numerous philosophical problems. Errm, our understanding of cause and effect demands that there be a forward computation of time which in turn demands that the universe have a beginning. This argument has been debunked over and over. If the universe had a beginning, then it must beg a cause which is an actual infinity. We must by necessity reject an infinite regress because we know the universe is already here and an infinite regress cannot be the case. 5. There’s no evidence that the universe has a beginning, your have not proven that it has a beginning. So this argument has a deductice error. Wrong! The Big Bang theory itself posits that the universe had a beginning. The inflationary model of the universe proves it had a beginning. A redshift in light frequencies from distant galaxies point to a beginning from an infinitely dense point. 7. The God of Gaps fallacy. Because we don’t know then God must have done it. That doesn’t hold any water in philosophy. This also boiled down to which God you are talking about in particular. We have 4200 of them, which one does fit all the description you made I have addressed this up there. It is simply inference from a possibility. You should know when to claim something is a fallacy. You yourself commit one here. It is called the red herring fallacy. This thread aims to establish the existence of God (as a grand concept), which God he is is an entirely different case. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 10:16am On Apr 07, 2021 |
OKOATA:Another excuse! Even if I read this from somewhere, you should also know that all you believe about God was taught to you by someone or read from the Bible which was written by men. |
Religion / Re: My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 9:53am On Apr 07, 2021 |
OKOATA: Yes, I understand that there are people who come up with excuses not to learn. Actually, science has helped us understand most of what you claim we can't explain. |
Religion / My Argument For God's Existence. by hiddendude: 9:33am On Apr 07, 2021 |
1. The universe couldn't have always existed as this is inconsistent to how we experience it. Cause and effect work with a forward computation of time from a possible point (a possible infinity). There are two kinds of infinity (possible infinity and actual infinity). A possible infinity begins with a point in the past and continues infinitely into the future. An actual infinity exists infinitely in the past and continues infinitely into the future (e.g integers on a number line). 2. If the universe were an actual infinity, then the present epoch would be logically impossible. How? Like I posited in the first argument, cause and effect work with a forward computation of time from a possible point. We understand this because we get to present times by successive additions. To understand this, think of the number line. The number 0 stands for the present epoch/point in time, negative numbers represent past epochs and positive numbers represent future epochs. Think of a hypothetical situation in which you have to traverse the number line from negative numbers to 0 (you do this by making successive additions e.g -3, -2 (-3+1), -1(-2+1), 0 (-1+1)). Such an addition is only possible if you have a starting point from which such additions can be made. If you traverse infinitely into the negative part of the number line (i.e numbers before 0 on the number line), you'll never make successive additions because it would be impossible to pick a starting point, hence you'll never get to 0. 3. If the universe existed infinitely in the past, there can be no cause and effect because a forward computation of time would be impossible within the universe. 4. The universe must have a beginning for cause and effect to be possible. 5. If the universe had a beginning, then itself is an effect of a greater cause. Whatever caused the universe must itself not be caused as this would lead to an infinite regress which we must reject because we know it is possible to make forward computations of time which would not be possible with an infinite regress as demonstrated using the number line. This thus leads us to infer that this cause is itself actually infinite. 6. This actually infinite cause transcends the universe because it precedes it. 7. Thus God is the best possible explanation for this as the concept of God assumes actual infinity is a feature of God. I'm open to counterarguments with logic. |
Religion / Re: God Exists- This Is Why Atheists Keep Attacking & Going Against Christians. by hiddendude: 8:57am On Apr 07, 2021 |
Hashabiah:And you think you're not making assumptions? You now call Kant's theory an assumption because it doesn't sit well with you? Because there is no justifiable reason for why something is good or bad. In essence, the abilty to discern right from wrong stem from the heart of every individual on this earth irrespective of intellectual prowess, religious affiliation or tribal allegiance. Which bring the question : how then can you know that what you are doing is right or wrong? Kant's theory still goes. What isn't moral is conceptually contradictory. I cannot imagine a universe replete with stealing or lying without conceiving of a contradiction, hence I should not steal or lie. But from my perspective, we knowing right from wrong comes from a standard higher than us(which happens to be God's nature). This standard comes from something outside our humanity. And you can prove this how? |
Religion / Re: God Exists- This Is Why Atheists Keep Attacking & Going Against Christians. by hiddendude: 11:45pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
truespeak:Of course, the usual assumption that a person's bad mood is their true self like people shouldn't get angry at someone who's unreasonable. 1 Like |
Religion / Re: The Problem Of Believing Morality Comes From A God Or Gods. by hiddendude: 11:42pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
truespeak: This is strange! Especially as this is my first time encountering you. It is especially a bad time for me as you happen to be very stupid. 1 Like |
Religion / Re: God Exists- This Is Why Atheists Keep Attacking & Going Against Christians. by hiddendude: 11:39pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
truespeak:Just shut up! Shut the f*ck up because I'm tired explaining a very basic thing to you. Even if there is a reason he made such a statement, it is still an ad hominem fallacy because he attempts to use that reason to get me to think less of the other guy. 1 Like |
Religion / Re: The Problem Of Believing Morality Comes From A God Or Gods. by hiddendude: 11:37pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
Dtruthspeaker: You've not said anything reasonable. You're just a bag of bad arguments. |
Religion / Re: The Problem Of Believing Morality Comes From A God Or Gods. by hiddendude: 11:35pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
truespeak:He makes a bad argument as well and I have addressed this. Keep wondering who I am. |
Religion / Re: The Problem Of Believing Morality Comes From A God Or Gods. by hiddendude: 11:34pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
Dtruthspeaker: What exactly makes one a criminal other than sufficient evidence to that effect? Again, you make very poor arguments Truth does not like to be Hidden, and I see you that you keeping in tune with your Monika which is to remain in Darkness.It's spelled "moniker" and what does my moniker have to do with my arguments? Again, you make very poor arguments I know ONLY ONE Group of Persons who love Darkness and they Do Not Like The Light meanwhile Truth is Always Light.I am not new to Nairaland and this is a very new account and I also have never seen you in my life. This is even my first time of encountering someone like you on Nairaland. Please do not assume what you do not know about me, I do not tolerate defamation of character. |
Religion / Re: The Problem Of Believing Morality Comes From A God Or Gods. by hiddendude: 11:27pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
kingxsamz: Errm, you haven't even made a good argument or at least one that is relevant to the thread. |
Religion / Re: The Problem Of Believing Morality Comes From A God Or Gods. by hiddendude: 11:25pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
truespeak: You're making an argument from necessary evil which doesn't resolve the problem highlighted. Again, it is a derailment. |
Religion / Re: The Problem Of Believing Morality Comes From A God Or Gods. by hiddendude: 11:23pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
kingxsamz:The euthyphro problem is a problem for any religion that believes God or gods are precursors to morality. |
Religion / Re: God Exists- This Is Why Atheists Keep Attacking & Going Against Christians. by hiddendude: 11:20pm On Apr 06, 2021 |
truespeak: Do you know what an ad hominem is? It is an attack on a person's character with the aim of undermining their arguments or garnering supporters. Even if there is a reason for the statement, it is still an ad hominem. And the reason for the statement does not matter because a person's identity or personality has no bearing on the arguments they make. |
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