tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714522.post2600072396310563873..comments2024-03-29T07:36:41.429-04:00Comments on Incinerating Presuppositionalism: I Reject Christianity Because It’s Not True, Part IBahnsen Burnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11030029491768748360noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714522.post-60257731253374721402014-03-19T14:33:15.466-04:002014-03-19T14:33:15.466-04:00Dawson,
Another good one! Looking forward to the...Dawson,<br /><br />Another good one! Looking forward to the other installments.<br /><br />In your blog entry you wrote: "People implicitly know that 'wishing doesn’t make it so,' but many unfortunately fail to identify the primacy of existence as the underlying reason for this (and then go on to posit an imaginary consciousness to whose wishes truth conforms!)."<br /><br />Yes. And your parenthetical goes right back to your question that I've referenced many times: "So what inputs inform the theist's concept of consciousness beyond his own firsthand experience such that he thinks it is meaningful to suppose that there exists a consciousness possessing the exact opposite relationship that his consciousness has with its own objects?"<br /><br />I've yet to see a satisfactory response to this from any theist, which isn't surprising. But, now that I think about it, I'm hard-pressed in recalling any responses at all. <br /><br />YdemocYdemochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03498165330193613762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714522.post-87588112767055700712014-03-19T09:33:43.870-04:002014-03-19T09:33:43.870-04:00Good morning friends.
Good blog. I read it last ...Good morning friends. <br /><br />Good blog. I read it last evening while riding DART Light Rail Green Line to my stop. <br /><br />I reject Christianity for the same reason I reject all forms of "supernaturalism", and that's because they all explicitly affirm metaphysical primacy of consciousness, a false metaphysic. Existence has always existed. The false vacuum in which our cosmic domain or Cosmos exists is past eternal. Organisms with consciousness may evolve in true vacuum domains where ever conditions permit. And it still is a self-evident fact that requires no proving that consciousness is a faculty of awareness that is metaphysically passive and epistemicly active.<br /><br />In case a mystical religion believer reads this, I ask: 'How do you know your brain can cause an electron-positron pair to If you were placed into a sensory deprivation tank of warm salt water so you were buoyant, your senses were all covered so you were to be alone with yourself and almost no sensory input, and you were meditating to focus on your mental core self, could you then cause an electron to spontaneously nucleate from our cosmic domain's space-time quantum vacuum?<br /><br />I'm very sure that can't be accomplished; I might be wrong, but I think the prior and consequent probabilities are on the side of determinism here. If so, then consciousness probably couldn't cause an inflaton particle to spontaneously emerge from the quantum vacuum of The Multiverse.<br /><br />Best Wishes to All and I'm Looking forward to Dawson's next installment of this current series of blog entries. <br /><br />RB :) Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469718358131331499noreply@blogger.com