QUOTE(Loge @ Apr 22 2005, 08:07 AM)
QUOTE(Quicksand @ Apr 21 2005, 02:23 PM)
Ah, that's a unacceptable presupposition.
One can make the choice to believe in God our not, therefore God is an unnecessary presupposition for the design or creation of universe that you and I share Loge.
The rest of your argument relies on an unnecessary presupposition so the rest of what you say is as equally suspect if not outright invalid.
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"So if we decide there is no cosmologically penultimate sentience, we are deciding that humans are the top of the scale of universal and collective bio-cognition. Rationally, this is absurd. As a collective, we form something we can barely discuss. We certainly rarely experience it directly — and what of the collective of a living planet? Of all scales and moments of Life in endless universes within universes?" El Kybalion
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Um... I have no idear who the "El Kybalion" is and I don't feel like using my Webkinesis, nor do I really care for that matter, but I will just respond to it anyway.
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So if we decide there is no cosmologically penultimate sentience, we are deciding that humans are the top of the scale of universal and collective bio-cognition.
Fallacy of False Dilemma.
Just because one chooses not to make a proactive and conscious decision to believe in the supernatural, does not equal a person putting himself above an alleged god, or above all other biological entities.
Funny thing, with a belief in God, it seems that many of the religious have done that already. Assuming the mantle of supremacy above other creatures in our world and above other groups of men, like the bloody children of Abraham's religion have done.
So much for an objective standard of truth that the religious proclaim.
When El Kybalion states
"Rationally, this is absurd" he is exactly right.
And his reasoning by reductio just doesn't work.
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Vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas.