keiths
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Barb brings teh stupid:
| Quote | Here are five reasons why I consider materialism unreasonable:
1. Specified complexity. This cannot be explained materially. It cannot be explained by nonintelligent natural laws.
2. Human thoughts, dreams, and ideas are not simply comprised only of materials. Chemicals are involved, but they don’t explain all human thoughts. The theory of materialism isn’t made of molecules. You cannot measure and weigh love, hate, or jealousy, yet they exist in the human mind.
3. If life were nothing more than materials, then scientists would have already taken the materials of life (the same ones found in dirt) and make a living being. A combination of chemicals cannot explain consciousness.
4. Spiritual experiences. If materialism is true, then anyone on earth who’s ever had a spiritual experience of any sort was completely mistaken. While this isn’t impossible, it’s highly unlikely. Those who have had spiritual experiences include Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, and Jesus Christ. All of them were mistaken? I’d have to see strong evidence from the atheist/materialist side to be convinced.
5. Reason requires faith. A defense of reason by reason is circular and therefore worthless. Our ability to reason could have come from (1) preexisting intelligence or (2) mindless matter. It is the materialists who insist, by faith, that our minds arose from mindless matter without any intelligent intervention. This contradicts all scientific observations. |
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And the set of natural numbers is also the set that starts at 0 and goes to the largest number. -- Joe G
Please stop putting words into my mouth that don't belong there and thoughts into my mind that don't belong there. -- KF
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