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(Permalink) Posted: Mar. 25 2011,01:52   

Quote (kevinmillerxi @ Mar. 25 2011,08:52)
My thought process: If what we refer to as reason is nothing but the product of chance + necessity, then the outcome of our reasoning process couldn't be anything more than the same--a product of chance plus necessity. Therefore, the things we refer to as thoughts and arguments are of no more consequence than than the process in our body that manufactures insulin. I'm not saying that's how I think. I just see it as the logical consequence of an atheistic point of view. Put another way: If chance + necessity are the only forces at work in the universe shaping life and everything else we see around us (another way of saying random mutation plus natural selection), you can't sneak anything else in and pretend that the thoughts in your brain are a product of anything that would give them significance beyond what you ascribe to them. So why give credence to them? Why feel passionately about them?

I guess my point is, I hear a lot of people espousing an atheistic point of view but very people actually living out the logical consequences of that point of view. Even Will Provine, who has done as good a job as any of following things through to their logical conclusions, does not seem to live according to his espoused worldview.

But I'm off topic. This thread is supposed to be about hell.

Your reasoning maybe the product of improbability and need leading to your perception of an existential angst.

But even a dog can figure out how to cross a busy road road without being hit by a car, many however get hit.

Your powers of reasoning don't seem to be much use why don't you take up something more suitable?

"ID is deader than Lenny Flanks granmaws dildo batteries" Erasmus



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