tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329258274202118997.post2141240377711086592..comments2023-11-02T04:59:44.598-07:00Comments on Reflections: Crying WolfAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10810102648783268285noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329258274202118997.post-25724675237264495762017-07-05T20:23:00.447-07:002017-07-05T20:23:00.447-07:00That guy should have listened to more Amish Paradi...That guy should have listened to more Amish Paradise by Weird Al, he wouldn't have lost his faith.Sean Killackeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08683592785735127212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329258274202118997.post-74956135743409250702017-07-05T20:22:32.806-07:002017-07-05T20:22:32.806-07:00But I mean, seriously, that question is like askin...But I mean, seriously, that question is like asking, 'Who brought into being the beginningless, necessarily existent (a se, essentially immortal) God, who is the source of all things.' Once you flesh the question out, it makes no sense - its kind of like asking 'Can God create a stone so large that he can't move it?' Such a stone is a logical impossibility, and it is no slight to God to say that he can't do the logically impossible!Sean Killackeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08683592785735127212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329258274202118997.post-13532121978661178862017-07-05T20:19:39.617-07:002017-07-05T20:19:39.617-07:00I wonder if the 'friendly atheist' is also...I wonder if the 'friendly atheist' is also thinks that the who created the Creator argument is lame. He writes, "Seriously. Someone asking Copp “Who created God?” and that was his tipping point." Or does he think that it's a fine argument, but that there are other, more obvious or persuasive ones. I hope the former, but I suspect the latter. Either way, its a terrible argument, and aside from the problem of evil, there really aren't any arguments for atheism; and that, at best, only makes God's existence less likely. All things considered, even if we were to grant the atheist's argument from pain, God's existence is still much more probable than not. (Moreover, there are certain arguments that demonstrate God's existence, rather than these more evidentialist type arguments, which only establish probabilities.)Sean Killackeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08683592785735127212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329258274202118997.post-49599944440144017862017-07-05T17:55:48.271-07:002017-07-05T17:55:48.271-07:00Moreover, the answer is not merely logically consi...Moreover, the answer is not merely logically consistent, but true - and necessarily so. Everything can't be contingent, since everything contingent is contingent upon something. There must be something whose existence is grounded in itself and who is the source of all other things, and this is God, in whom 'we move and have our being.'Sean Killackeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08683592785735127212noreply@blogger.com